There has been an explosion of package/environment/platform managers in the R ecosystem recently. Here, we explore {renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, and ir.

Listen to episodes and learn more about Research as it Happens. What does science look like while it’s still unfolding?In Research as it Happens, we go inside a large-scale psychology project, where…

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Detecting careless responding in experience sampling methodology (ESM) is essential for ensuring data quality. Although quantitative detection methods are increasingly available, their low alignment r...

Psychological Science is seeking submissions for the following special issues:Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language ModelsFrom Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real WorldCenter...

Replications are more and more conducted in multiple research fields. A recent large-scale replication project, Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) project, replicated 274 e...

Credit: HALUSTD from Popspixel via Canva When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset …

When should researchers use linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) versus repeated-measures analysis of variance (RM-ANOVA) for analysing repeated-measures data? I first outline the conceptual and statist...

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Synthetic survey respondents tend to exaggerate differences between demographic subgroups and portray some responses as nearly universal.

Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

Join us for an engaging discussion about one of the most exciting new developments in scholarly publishing in decades! The scholarly publishing system is under intense pressure. Researchers face in…

COS Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-sour...

Various estimators of causal effects based on inverse probability weighting, doubly robust estimation, and double machine learning. Specifically, the package includes methods for estimating average tr...

COS Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-source R package created from that work.

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Mediation analysis has been widely used in social psychology to investigate the mechanisms linking independent and dependent variables. However, conducting a proper mediation analysis is challenging, ...

Die Cochrane-Stiftung, die seit Jahren die Nutzen medizinischer Therapien untersucht, soll künftig nicht mehr staatlich gefördert werden.

Peer review before results are known to align scientific values and practices.