The Behavioral Scientist’s Ethics Checklist
A recent meeting left us feeling queasy. One of us (Jon) was preparing to partner with a large multinational company on a research study involving the company’s employees.
October 23rd, 2017
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May 22nd, 2017
Bringing Sociology Back
Behavioral scientists can answer some questions better via a collaborative approach.
March 09th, 2016
Replicating the Replicators: Is Psychology in Crisis or Not?
Science recently published a critique of the findings of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology.
February 29th, 2016
Do Millennials Have a Lesser Work Ethic?
The collision between the Millennial generation’s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company’s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired.
October 06th, 2015
The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments
We can pay dearly, in blood, treasure, and well-being, for experiments that aren’t done. In the nearly fifty years that Head Start has been in existence, we have spent $200 billion on it.
September 02nd, 2015
Psychology’s Largest Replication Effort Reveals Low Rates of Reproducibility
During the past three years, 270 researchers from around the world recreated 98 psychology studies from three top journals to see if they could produce the same results.
March 18th, 2014
Defining Research Integrity for All of Science is the Moral Responsibility of Social Psychology
Mahazarin Banaji penned her speech on research integrity only a few hours before its delivery. She decided to write the speech below and forego her planned presentation after hearing an earlier talk.
August 28th, 2013
When a Theory is Too Good to Be True: Fallacies in Perception Research
Over the past few decades, research in the fields of perception and psychophysics has seemingly demonstrated that our vision is inherently tied to the current psychological, emotional, or physical state of our body.
