Full Description
At its foundational level, the heart of science is that its methods allow for others to believe its results. This foundation is served by trust, accuracy, and transparency. Unfortunately, current research practices in psychology are known to produce inaccurate, irreproducible, and imprecise results.
This book introduces a plethora of strategies to help strengthen the field by improving research quality. Readers will learn how research methods are evolving and how to maximize the quality and impact of their own work. This includes strategies for not just developing research ideas, designing studies, and analyzing and disseminating results, but also evaluating and responding to the research of others. Toward a More Perfect Psychology is a vital step in making psychology a stronger, more rigorous science.
Contents
I. The Research Process
1. The Contributions of Theory Choice, Cumulative Science, and Problem Finding to Scientific Innovation and Research Quality
2. Designing a Study to Maximize Informational Value
3. Confirmatory Study Design, Data Analysis, and Results That Matter
4. Selective Outcome Reporting and Research Quality
5. Citing, Being Cited, Not Citing, and Not Being Cited: Citations as Intellectual Footprints
II. Perspectives
6. The Peer Review Process: Using the Traditional System to Its Full Potential
7. Communicating to the Public
8. Sharing Your Work: An Essay on Dissemination for Impact
III. Views From the Field
9. The Promises and Pitfalls of Research-Practice Partnerships
10. Conducting Cognitive Neuroscience Research
11. Science in Clinical Psychology
12. he Messy Art of Doing Science: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls and Problematic Research Practices
IV. Reproducibility
13. Data Reanalysis and Open Data
14. Replication
15. Meta-Analysis and Reproducibility
V. Synthesis
16. The Reproducibility Crisis in Psychology: Attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace?
17. Reproducible Science: A New Hope
