Science of a lie: Psychology Antidote for Downfall Why Psychology - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Science of a lie: Psychology Antidote for Downfall Why Psychology - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
Lie with statistics Wrong or weak Statistics
Why Psychology Sucks?
Diederik Stapel
Data Fabrication: Talk Through Your Ass
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
Self-control is a limited resource?
Ego Depletion
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)
Ask a Question Review Literature Formulate Hypothesis
Design/Run
Study Make Inferences Report Results
Research Process
Nice Hypothesis
Messier 87
Ask a Question Review Literature Formulate Hypothesis
Design/Run
Study Make Inferences Report (positive) Results
Private Public
Research Process
Status Quo
Ask a Question Review Literature Formulate Hypothesis
Design/Run
Study Make Inferences Report (all) Results
Public
Documenting the Research Workflow
Research Process
Open Science
Ask a Question Review Literature Formulate Hypothesis
Design/Run
Study Make Inferences Report Results Open Notebook Pre-registration
- OSF
- Aspredicted.org
Registered Reports Register study design, procedure, materials, data analytic plan Data Management Plan Confirmatory and Exploratory analyses Preprint Server
- Psyarxiv
- Socarxiv
Journal
- Traditional
- Open Access
Share data, Code, and Meta-data
Open Research Process
Open Science as a Antidote
Psychological Science Accelerator
Berkeley Initiative For Transparency in the Social Sciences