Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Replication—an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice—is gaining
appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research …

We conducted the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to investigate the replicability of
preclinical research in cancer biology. The initial aim of the project was to repeat 193 …

Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Scientists often adjust their significance threshold (alpha level) during null hypothesis
significance testing in order to take into account multiple testing and multiple comparisons …

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 …

In this article, we define questionable measurement practices (QMPs) as decisions
researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the measures, and ultimately the …

The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow
rapidly. Most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

In many scientific disciplines, common research practices have led to unreliable and
exaggerated evidence about scientific phenomena. Here we describe some of these …