Toward a more perfect psychology : improving trust, accuracy, and transparency in research /
edited by Matthew C. Makel and Jonathan A. Plucker.
- First Edition.
- xii, 323 pages ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The research process -- The contributions of theory choice, cumulative science and problem finding to scientific innovation and research quality -- Designing a study to maximize informational value -- Confirmatory study design, data analysis, and results that matter -- Selective outcome reporting and research quality -- Citing, being cited, not citing, and not being cited : citations as intellectual footprints -- Perspectives -- The peer-review process : using the traditional system to its full potential -- Communicating to the public -- Sharing your work: an essay on dissemination for impact -- Views from the field -- The promises and pitfalls of research-practice partnerships -- A conducting cognitive neuroscience research -- Science in clinical psychology -- The messy art of doing science: avoiding ethical pitfalls and problematic research practices -- Reproducibility -- Data re-analysis and open data -- Replication -- Meta-analysis and reproducibility -- Synthesis -- The reproducibility crisis in psychology: attack of the clones or phantom menace? -- Reproducible science : a new hope.