A project aims to replicate a year’s worth of studies in three psychology journals. It’s not an attack, but a bid to gauge the reproducibility of published research.

The study, published in the Journal Of Experimental Psychology, revealed that there are "cool" people are universally ...

Researchers re-did 100 published psychology studies, and many did not check out. These are three of the studies, and some possible explanations for why they couldn’t be replicated.

A 2008 study, which found that the research in six major psychology journals only rarely examined people outside the West, wryly proposed that a top journal rename itself the "Journal of the ...

In summer 2015, Professor Neil Martin, a psychologist at Regent's University London, and Richard Clarke, a research degree student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, reviewed the ...

To examine racial representation in psychological research, Roberts and his Stanford research team—Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, Forrest A. Dollins, Peter D. Goldie, and Elizabeth Mortenson—looked at more ...

So Motyl and Skitka also set out to compare papers in four major psychology journals published in 2003 and 2004 with the same number of studies published 10 years later, in 2013 and 2014.

A huge, collaborative research project attempted to recreate 100 studies that were recently published in major psychology journals, and it found that only 39 of those studies’ results could be ...

The tendency of scientific journals to prefer to publish positive and original research contributes to the replication crisis. Researchers have investigated 1,151 psychology journals and found ...

With that, dissemination in the form of peer-reviewed journal articles is often a primary focus for researchers, given that their publications and h-index are essentially "academic currency." ...

If you're passionate about addressing mental health concerns in your community—or about researching how the mind influences behaviors—consider becoming a psychologist. Psychology is a vast ...