Can happiness be reliably increased? Thousands of studies speak to this question.
However, many of them were conducted during a period in which researchers commonly “p …

Recent years have marked a renaissance in efforts to increase research reproducibility in
psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. Reproducibility is the cornerstone of a solid …

For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of
null-hypothesis significance tests made research on theories in the social sciences basically …

Although psychology's recent crisis has been attributed to various scientific practices, it has
come to be called a “replication crisis,” prompting extensive appraisals of this putatively …

While prior research suggests that facial expression influences consumer behavior, it
remains unclear under which conditions specific emotional expressions on social media …

Although research has identified dozens of behavioral and psychosocial strategies for
boosting resilience in adults, little is known about the common underlying pathways. A …

Progress in psychology has been frustrated by challenges concerning replicability,
generalizability, strategy selection, inferential reproducibility, and computational …

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially
lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a …

Laughter is a crucial signal for communication and managing interactions. Until now no
consensual approach has emerged for classifying laughter. We propose a new framework …

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where
a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material …