Here’s what we found

16 October 2019

Today's guest blog is by Jesse Singal.

• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Research

10 May 2019

To many, the statement “Religion causes violence” seems intuitively true.

• Social and behavioural
• Violence and trauma

02 April 2019

While liberal bias per se is not associated with research replicability, highly politically biased findings of either slant (liberal or conservative) are less robust.

• Government and politics
• Research

17 June 2019

Corrected press releases led to more accurate news, without any dip in quantity of coverage; according to a new study by Adams et al, 2019.

• Research

10 July 2019

When responding to science denialism it can be difficult to establish the right strategy.

• Social and behavioural

10 April 2019

Unfortunately it’s not very promising.

• Social and behavioural
• Work and occupational

21 May 2019

For some reason randomised testing sometimes elicits moral outrage.

• Government and politics
• Research

16 November 2018

Meta-analysis finds little evidence for the Macbeth effect.

• Research
• Social and behavioural

03 October 2018

Your ability to accurately understand your own thoughts and behaviour in a given moment can have rather profound consequences.

• Personality and self

10 December 2018

Nearly 95 per cent of participant samples in a leading psychology journal were from Western countries.

• Equality, diversity and inclusion
• Research

09 November 2018

Outrage: it’s absolutely everywhere…

• Digital and technology
• Emotion

30 November 2018

Replicating a study isn’t easy. Just knowing how the original was conducted isn’t enough. Just having access to a sample of experimental participants isn’t enough.

• Research
• Research Ethics