Measurement quality has recently been highlighted as an important concern for advancing a
cumulative psychological science. An implication is that researchers should move beyond …

Patient-reported outcomes are recognized as essential for the evaluation of medical and
public health interventions. Over the last 50 years, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) …

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 …

Currently, there is little guidance for navigating measurement challenges that threaten
construct validity in replication research. To identify common challenges and ultimately …

In psychology, attempts to replicate published findings are less successful than expected.
For properly powered studies replication rate should be around 80%, whereas in practice …

Individual differences in cognitive paradigms are increasingly employed to relate cognition
to brain structure, chemistry, and function. However, such efforts are often unfruitful, even …

Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

Numerous neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural basis of interindividual
differences but the replicability of brain–phenotype associations remains largely unknown …

Context-dependent biological variation presents a unique challenge to the reproducibility of
results in experimental animal research, because organisms' responses to experimental …

One of the most concerning notions for science communicators, fact-checkers, and
advocates of truth, is the backfire effect; this is when a correction leads to an individual …