Editorial Perspective: When is a 'small effect'actually large and impactful?

EG Carey, I Ridler, TJ Ford… - Journal of Child …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reporting of effect sizes is standard practice in psychology and psychiatry research.
However, interpretation of these effect sizes can be meaningless or misleading–in particular …

Power to detect what? Considerations for planning and evaluating sample size

R Giner-Sorolla, AK Montoya… - Personality and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Academic Abstract In the wake of the replication crisis, social and personality psychologists
have increased attention to power analysis and the adequacy of sample sizes. In this article …

Subjective socioeconomic status and income inequality are associated with self-reported morality across 67 countries

CT Elbæk, P Mitkidis, L Aarøe, T Otterbring - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Individuals can experience a lack of economic resources compared to others, which we refer
to as subjective experiences of economic scarcity. While such experiences have been …

Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? Systematically testing the prevalence, nature, and effect size of trait-by-trait moderation

CE Vize, BM Sharpe, JD Miller… - European Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Personality researchers have posited multiple ways in which the relations between
personality traits and life outcomes may be moderated by other traits, but there are well …

Are small effects the indispensable foundation for a cumulative psychological science? A reply to Götz et al.(2022)

MA Primbs, CR Pennington, D Lakens… - Perspectives on …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the January 2022 issue of Perspectives, Götz et al. argued that small effects are “the
indispensable foundation for a cumulative psychological science.” They supported their …

Scientific-consensus communication about contested science: A preregistered meta-analysis

A van Stekelenburg, G Schaap, H Veling… - Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Scientific-consensus communication is among the most promising interventions to minimize
the gap between experts' and the public's belief in scientific facts. There is, however …

Effect of a workshop to break the bias habit for internal medicine faculty: a multisite cluster randomized controlled study

M Carnes, J Sheridan, E Fine, YG Lee… - Academic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Recognition that cultural stereotypes can unintentionally perpetuate inequities
throughout academic medicine has led to calls for “implicit bias training” without strong …

The labels and models used to describe problematic substance use impact discrete elements of stigma: A registered report.

CR Pennington, RL Monk, D Heim… - Psychology of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: Problematic substance use is one of the most stigmatized health conditions
leading research to examine how the labels and models used to describe it influence public …

The importance of the smallest effect size of interest in expert witness testimony on alcohol and memory

H Otgaar, P Riesthuis, JG Ramaekers, M Garry… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Memory experts are sometimes asked to evaluate the validity of accounts of witnesses,
victims, or suspects. In some of these cases, they are asked what effect alcohol has on the …

Did Descriptive and Prescriptive Norms About Gender Equality at Home Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Cross-National Investigation

FM Saxler, AR Dorrough, L Froehlich… - Personality and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Using data from 15 countries, this article investigates whether descriptive and prescriptive
gender norms concerning housework and child care (domestic work) changed after the …