The bigger hurdle appears not to be entering academia but staying in it: An international study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development shows that, despite high entry rates, w...

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, ...

Note : This post builds on a series of PubPeer comments made here . Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outp...

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

This open access book features chapters from clinicians, psychologists, and philosophers to explore issues about epistemic justice in mental healthcare.

These short educational videos in animated and talking head formats provide an introduction to the h-index, a commonly used scholarly metric for assessing authors’ publication output and citation impa...

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

The first recommendation for quantitative studies in JECH ’s recently published methodological recommendations1 for prospective authors reads: > Be upfront about the research study’s intention (this ...

[See all Upcoming Events] Although SIPS meetings happen once a year, improving psychological science is a year-round endeavor. To help our community stay active outside the annual meetings, SIPS is…

When healthcare answers are delayed, the psychological impact can be profound. Why prolonged waiting can feel threatening, and how compassionate communication can help patients.

Purpose The double empathy problem posits that autistic people and non-autistic people both lack empathy with the other side rather than the lack of empathy solely residing in one side. There have bee...

The emperor is naked, holding a dashboard

Our tutorial paper on openESM has been published, and we have added new datasets and features to the platform.

Ein Änderungsantrag soll mit der Streichung der Angemessenheitsprüfung die wirtschaftliche Grundlage psychotherapeutischer Praxen vernichten. Am 10. Juli fällt die Entscheidung.

Nature Mental Health - In this meta-analysis of 49 studies, the authors find that self-reports of childhood maltreatment are generally stable, challenging assumptions of inherent unreliability and...

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

Unlike other high-profile professions, academia treats rejection as personal judgement, can it create ways of talking about rejection that are more realistic?

Dependency theory explains how resources systematically flow from the “periphery

I was at a meeting this morning in which the vexed issue of the journal Impact Factor (IF) came up. That reminded me of something that struck me when I was checking the NASA/ADS entry for a paper r…

ManyScale will be a network of repositories for self-report measures in psychology.

Tools that perform automated checks have the potential to assist researchers. Just as a spelling check can warn users for possible misspellings, automated checks of statistical reporting, data and…

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is often resistant to standard antidepressant therapy. Inflammation has been implicated in MDD pathophysiology and inf…

This Consensus Report addresses the methodological variability in ambulatory assessment studies within mental health. Utilizing a Delphi-adapted process with 26 experts, it offers best-practice recomm...