Changes in methodological study characteristics in psychology between 2010-2021.

ABSTRACT: In 2015, the Open Science Collaboration repeated a series of 100 psychological experiments. Since a considerable part of these replications could not confirm the original effects and some of them pointed in the opposite direction, psychological research is said to lack reproducibility. Several general criticisms can explain this finding, such as the standardized use of undirected nil-null hypothesis tests, samples being too small and selective, lack of corrections for multiple testing, but also some widespread questionable research practices and incentives to publish positive results only. A selection of 57,909 articles from 12 renowned journals is processed with the JATSdecoder software to analyze the extent to which several empirical research practices in psychology have changed over the

SUBMITTER: Boschen I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171647 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature