The speaker discusses how researchers in social and personality psychology have various choices they can make to engage in more open science practices, such as sharing data and analysis code or following pre-specified analytic plans, and provides examples of researchers who have made these choices. The talk focuses on what open science practices researchers are already employing rather than what could be done, and how these practices can help advance theory through more rigorous testing of hypotheses.
The speaker discusses how researchers in social and personality psychology have various choices they can make to engage in more open science practices, such as sharing data and analysis code or following pre-specified analytic plans, and provides examples of researchers who have made these choices. The talk focuses on what open science practices researchers are already employing rather than what could be done, and how these practices can help advance theory through more rigorous testing of hypotheses.
The speaker discusses how researchers in social and personality psychology have various choices they can make to engage in more open science practices, such as sharing data and analysis code or following pre-specified analytic plans, and provides examples of researchers who have made these choices. The talk focuses on what open science practices researchers are already employing rather than what could be done, and how these practices can help advance theory through more rigorous testing of hypotheses.
Speaker: Lorne Campbell, University of Western Ontario
Abstract: There has been an ongoing discussion of the problems associated with the typical methodological practices of social and personality psychologists the past few years. Part of this discussion has included a number of suggested changes to these typical practices, many falling under the banner of open science (e.g., transparency of the research process, data sharing, sharing code, as well as following pre-specified data analytic plans). In this talk I will discuss specific instances of researchers engaging in these open science practices, highlighting the choices made during the research process. The focus will be not on what can be done to achieve more open science, but what is being done. Lastly, I will discuss how these open science practices can help advance theory by offering more risky tests of hypotheses.