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Experts’ Failure to Consider the Negative Predictive Power of Symptom Validity Tests

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Feigning (i.e., grossly exaggerating or fabricating) symptoms distorts diagnostic evaluations. Therefore, dedicated tools known as symptom validity tests (SVTs) have been developed to help clinicians differentiate feigned from genuine symptom ...
Isabella J. M. Niesten, Isabella J. M. Niesten, Harald Merckelbach, Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald, Ingrid Jutten-Rooijakkers, Alfons van Impelen   +5 more
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Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can use to investigate them.
Daniel L. Rosenfeld, E. Balcetis, B. Bastian, E. Berkman, J. Bosson, Tiffany N. Brannon, Anthony L. Burrow, C. D. Cameron, Serena Chen, Jonathan E. Cook, C. Crandall, Shai Davidai, Kristof Dhont, Paul W. Eastwick, S. Gaither, S. Gangestad, Thomas Gilovich, Kurt Gray, Elizabeth L. Haines, M. Haselton, N. Haslam, Gordon Hodson, M. Hogg, M. Hornsey, Yuen J. Huo, Samantha Joel, Frank J. Kachanoff, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, M. Leary, A. Ledgerwood, Randy T. Lee, S. Loughnan, Cara C. MacInnis, T. Mann, Damian R. Murray, Carolyn Parkinson, Efrén O. Pérez, T. Pyszczynski, Kaylin Ratner, Hank Rothgerber, James D. Rounds, Mark Schaller, R. Silver, Barbara A. Spellman, Nina Strohminger, J. Swim, F. Thoemmes, Betul Urganci, J. Vandello, Sarah C Volz, Vivian Zayas, A. Tomiyama   +51 more
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Burning the straw man: What exactly is psychological science?

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 2019
Problemification: Efendic and Van Zyl (2019) argue for following open access-based principles in IO psychology following the recent crises in psychological research. Among others, these refer to the failure to replicate empirical studies which cast doubt
David J.F. Maree
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Food Captures Attention, but Not the Eyes: An Eye- Tracking Study on Mindset and BMI’s Impact on Attentional Capture by High-Caloric Visual Food Stimuli

Journal of Cognition, 2022
Obesity is a worldwide pandemic and theories propose that attentional bias (AB) for food triggers craving and overeating, especially for people with obesity.
Leonardo Pimpini, Sarah Kochs, Wieske van Zoest, Anita Jansen, Anne Roefs   +4 more
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How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020
Psychology endeavors to develop theories of human capacities and behaviors on the basis of a variety of methodologies and dependent measures. We argue that one of the most divisive factors in psychological science is whether researchers choose to use ...
Olivia Guest, Andrea E. Martin
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Network science in psychology.

Psychological Methods
8 figures, 2 ...
Tracy Sweet, Selena Wang
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Productive explanation: A framework for evaluating explanations in psychological science.

Psychology Review
The explanation of psychological phenomena is a central aim of psychological science. However, the nature of explanation and the processes by which we evaluate whether a theory explains a phenomenon are often unclear.
N. V. van Dongen, R. van Bork, Adam Finnemann, Jonas M. B. Haslbeck, H.L.J. van der Maas, D. Robinaugh, J. de Ron, Jan Sprenger, D. Borsboom   +8 more
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Free psychology? Why psychological research is incompatible with the requirements of clockwork determinism

Frontiers in Psychology
This essay argues that the concept of strict causal determinism (or “clockwork determinism”), while being a powerful doctrine to reduce uncertainty, is not compatible with the way psychology does science.
Stephan Lau, Roy Frederick Baumeister
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Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Scientific evidence has recently been used to assert that certain psychological phenomena do not exist. Such claims, however, cannot be made because (1) scientific method itself is seriously limited (i.e., it can never prove a negative); (2) non ...
Seppo E. Iso-Ahola
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Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science.

Annual Review of Psychology, 2020
Replication-an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice-is gaining appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research progress.
B. Nosek, T. Hardwicke, Hannah Moshontz, Aurélien Allard, Katherine S. Corker, Anna Dreber, F. Fidler, J. Hilgard, Melissa Kline Struhl, Michèle B. Nuijten, J. Rohrer, Felipe Romero, Anne M. Scheel, L. D. Scherer, F. Schönbrodt, S. Vazire   +15 more
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