Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution

CJ Bryan, E Tipton, DS Yeager - Nature human behaviour, 2021 - nature.com
In the past decade, behavioural science has gained influence in policymaking but suffered a
crisis of confidence in the replicability of its findings. Here, we describe a nascent …

What counts as good science? How the battle for methodological legitimacy affects public psychology.

NA Lewis Jr - American Psychologist, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Part of the “boundary work”(Gieryn, 1983) throughout the history of psychology has been to
divide the discipline into camps of “basic” and “applied” researchers who take different …

Moving beyond implicit bias training: Policy insights for increasing organizational diversity

IN Onyeador, STJ Hudson… - Policy Insights from the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Many organizations are working to address diversity, equity, and inclusion. Organizations
frequently use implicit bias to explain disparities and marshal implicit bias training as a …

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

K Ruggeri, F Stock, SA Haslam, V Capraro, P Boggio… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly
part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper proposed 19 policy recommendations …

Psychological science is not race neutral

CH Dupree, MW Kraus - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In their analysis in a previous issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, Roberts and
colleagues argued that the editors, authors, and participants throughout subfields of …

The pandemic as a portal: Reimagining psychological science as truly open and inclusive

A Ledgerwood, STJ Hudson… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychological science is at an inflection point: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities that stem from our historically closed and exclusive culture. Meanwhile, reform …

Quality research needs good working conditions

RM Rahal, S Fiedler, A Adetula, RPA Berntsson… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
High-quality research requires appropriate employment and working conditions for
researchers. However, many academic systems rely on short-term employment contracts …

Do we report the information that is necessary to give psychology away? A scoping review of the psychological intervention literature 2000–2018

B Premachandra, NA Lewis Jr - … on Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychologists are spending a considerable amount of time researching and developing
interventions in hopes that their efforts can help to tackle some of society's pressing …

Universities claim to value community-engaged scholarship: So why do they discourage it?

M Bell, N Lewis Jr - Public Understanding of Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
With current crises of academic relevance and legitimacy, there is a need for epistemic
equity inherent to community-engaged research. Scholars in science communication and …

Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and metascientific considerations

DL Rosenfeld, E Balcetis, B Bastian… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from
what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can …