On the whole, results from psychology research studies don’t support a direct connection between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior.
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Science is in a reproducibility crisis. This is driven in part by invalid statistical analyses that happen long after the data are collected – the opposite of how things are traditionally done.
The journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently retracted several papers by a leading researcher on food and consumption. What does this mean for the researcher’s findings?
To know the real promise of psychedelic substances like LSD, mushrooms and MDMA, researchers must embrace the principles and practise of ‘open science.’
Questionable research practices are not fraud, and they’re not cause for panic. But they do give us some hints about how we can make science more robust.
Bad research techniques have called into question the results of many psychology studies. Fixing the problem starts with making sure students don’t pick up bad habits.
For years, there have been questions about research showing connections between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior.
Scientists are rewarded with funding and publications when they come up with innovative findings. But in the midst of a ‘reproducibility crisis,’ being new isn’t the only thing to value about research.
We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Professor, School of Biosciences & School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University
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Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Open Evidence Research, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Associate Professor, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, University of Guelph
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Postdoctoral Researcher , The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, Congnitive Neuroscience, University of Toronto
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PhD student in Clinical Psychology, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
