When it comes to reading academic research reports in the behavioral sciences, I'm no different than anyone else. I often find myself thinking "what is the point?" Reading academic papers is not ...

In our department, faculty leading exciting research projects across all areas of psychology and students are involved every step of the way. The department is home to first-class resources and ...

Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

Gene Heyman and two recent BC undergraduates, Jaime Montemayor (Chemistry) and Katherine Grisanzio (Psychology), published a paper titled "Dissociating attention and eye movements in a quantitative ...

Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...