Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science

Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science

This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012. When the success rate of a set of empirical studies is much higher than would be expected relative to the experiments' reported effects and sample sizes, it suggests that null finding...

The frequency of excess success for articles in Psychological Science.

Recent controversies have questioned the quality of scientific practice in the field of psychology, but these concerns are often based on anecdotes and seemingly isolated cases. To gain a broader perspective, this article applies an objective test for excess success to a large set of articles published in the journal Psychological Science between 2009 and 2012. When empirical studies succeed at...

Fundamental principles for preparing psychology journal articles.

As retiring Editor of the Journal of Compara:;:(and Physiological Psychology, I feel that I ruve one remaining responsibility to my n-vchological colleagues. Having passed judgment on about 2,500 original manuscripts and aunost as many revisions in my 12 years as Editor, I believe I should bequeath to pos:<rrity some principles of scientific reporting that I have formulated only through countle...

The Psychology of Referencing in Psychology Journal Articles.

Citation statistics can affect major professional decisions, but little is known about how important a particular reference is to the citing document. We asked 49 psychologists to rate the importance of every reference in their own empirical paper and to indicate the primary citation reason. References cited for conceptual ideas or to justify methods and data analyses were regarded as more impo...

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