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Science of a lie: Psychology Antidote for Downfall

Why Psychology Sucks? Wrong or weak Statistics Lie with statistics

Data Fabrication: Talk Through Your Ass Diederik Stapel

Smiling will make you feel happier? v Participants found cartoons funnier when they held a pen between their teet v Cited nearly 1500 times v 17 independent labs and nearly two thousand participants = no effect

Ego Depletion Self-control is a limited resource? v Willpower as a limited resource… v Cited thousands times v 23 independent labs and nearly two thousand participants = no effect

Exposure to words pertaining to ageing will make you walk more slowly? v Presumably the ageing-related words triggered related ideas in the participants’ minds that led them to behave in a stereotypically more elderly way.

Being reminded of money makes us selfish? v When exposed to reminders of money, it changes our mindset to be more selfish and less interested in equality.

Open Science as a Antidote v Sample Size v Effect Size v Replication v Pre-registration v Open process v Non-Weird Sample (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic)

Research Process Make Review Formulate Design/Run Ask a Question Report Results Study Inferences Literature Hypothesis

Nice Hypothesis Messier 87

Research Process Status Quo Public Make Ask a Review Formulate Report (p ositive ) Design/Run Study Inferences Question Literature Hypothesis Results Private

Research Process Open Science Public Make Review Formulate Report ( all ) Design/Run Ask a Question Study Inferences Literature Hypothesis Results Documenting the Research Workflow

Open Research Process Confirmatory and Exploratory analyses Share data, Pre-registration Registered Code, and OSF • Aspredicted.org • Reports Meta-data Make Ask a Review Formulate Design/Run Report Study Inferences Question Literature Hypothesis Results Preprint Server Register study design, • Psyarxiv Open Notebook procedure, materials, Socarxiv • data analytic plan Data Management Plan Journal • Traditional Open Access •

Open Science as a Antidote Berkeley Initiative For Psychological Science Transparency in the Social Sciences Accelerator