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Which Cognitive Sciences are the most affected by the Replication Crisis?
One finding from the Reproducibility Project was the following:
Van Bavel et al wrote that
Inbar (2) notes that the reproducibility rate of social psychology (28%) is lower than cognitive ...
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Are there peer-reviewed psychology or neuroscience journal articles that include the raw data (data set)?
Check out Psychological Science articles with the "Open Data Badge". There's also the Journal of Open Psychology Data.
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Is it ethical to deliberately provide incorrect information to participants in a psychological study?
The whole point of these lies is to prevent participants from changing their answers because they want to please the researchers or convey their personal beliefs about a topic.
It is typical to ...
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Are there peer-reviewed psychology or neuroscience journal articles that include the raw data (data set)?
See this previous question about journals that specialise in publishing psychological datasets.
See the reproducible-research tag for some more specific examples.
PlosOne Psychology has recently ...
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Why doesn't psychology impose higher standards to solve its replication crisis?
High standards are being proposed, but not taken up very quickly.
Psychology is currently undergoing a transition in methods between the traditional approach of hypothesizing after results are known (...
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How do I find Computer Science-Focused Cognitive Science Labs for Research?
The field you're talking about is probably computational neuroscience. In general, the advice I would give is that the department you are in doesn't much matter. There are people who study ...
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Is there a research on correlation between honesty and success?
No provocative experiment needed. Some of the major taxonomies within personality psychology have well-validated measures for honesty, and have been used in massive samples that could already address ...
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How to describe research on the effect of expectations on memory?
The relevant concepts are set size and span. The set size is usually the amount of items to be remembered in a memory task, but technically only refers to the amount of information that must be held ...
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Has the Open-Source Psychometrics Project been well received by the community?
As a matter of anecdote, I've used some of this data for teaching purposes, and I've heard of others doing the same.
As Bryan notes, there is a list of journal articles that have used the data: ...
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How can we eliminate the effect of psychiatric medication on neuropsychological research with schizophrenic patients?
As far as I know, this effect cannot be eliminated by any practical means, other than stratifying the subjects into groups according to type of drug, dosage, duration of use etc. and use statistical ...
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What work has been done studying methodological reforms in psychology after the replication crisis?
Ok, I came across "Open science and reform practices in organizational behavior research over time (2011 to 2019)" (Tenney et al. 2021), a paper which studies some Organization Behaviour ...
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How can I find literature about the connection between proprioception and thinking?
Two major terms:
"Spatial Representation":
of pitch height (lower/higher):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027705000260
emotions (down/up):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/...
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Is there any file format standard for EEG data?
You talk about the challenge of the variability in EEG data formats --- While I am (unfortunately) not aware of a standard EEG data format, there are attempts to standardize the way that EEG data ...
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Reproducible meta-analysis in psychology
I have started to see a fair bit of discussion about reproducible meta-analysis.
Tim Churches seems to have a github repository with a few examples of meta-analyses in R.
See in particular the ...
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Resources for reliable psychology research
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There is no official database I can find that collects the different effects proposed in psychology and track how they replicate. However, reputable psychology papers are published in ...
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How do I handle contradicting study results?
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Many individual papers report non-reproducible findings. I would advise you to look for review papers and meta-analysis studies to get the bigger picture. If not available, you can ...
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Why doesn't psychology impose higher standards to solve its replication crisis?
The basis of your question
..particle physics doesn't suffer nearly as much from the reproducibility crisis because it has much higher standards than the social sciences
You said this in response ...
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Is it ethical to deliberately provide incorrect information to participants in a psychological study?
In addition to the previous answer, there's also a document called The Belmont Report which describes the ethical principles and guidelines for conducting research involving human subjects.
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Resources for reliable psychology research
'psychology' is too big for this in general. But lots of people do care a lot about replication and there have been some nice many-labs efforts to asses the state of replicability across the field. ...
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Measuring emotion
You can simply use a questionnaire based measurement scale. I recommend the PANAS scale by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen (1988), which has extensive support in literature. It is a twenty-item ...
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Is there a research on correlation between honesty and success?
(This answer your question only partially).
Honesty and success are made of many things. Quite a bunch of studies found interesting correlations between honesty and success at the collective/cultural ...
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Is there a research on correlation between honesty and success?
To add to the existing answer, honesty-humility is a major factor in the HEXACO framework of personality.
There is a comprehensive list of papers using the HEXACO framework here organised under a ...
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What's the difference between inductive and deductive research in cog sci?
As far as my knowledge goes, I don't think these two types of reasoning in cogsci are any different to other forms of inductive or deductive reasoning: one is a bottom-up approach and the other a top-...
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