Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science. Discusses the pointed challenges posed by critics to the field of psychological research, which have given pause to psychological researchers across a broad spectrum of sub-fields Argues that those conducting psychological research need to fundamentally change the way they think about data and results, in order to ensure that psychology has a firm basis in empirical science Places the recent challenges discussed into a broad historical and conceptual perspective, and considers their implications for the future of psychological methodology and research Challenges discussed include confirmation bias, the effects of grant pressure, false-positive findings, overestimating the efficacy of medications, and high correlations in functional brain imaging Chapters are authored by internationally recognized experts in their fields, and are written with a minimum of specialized terminology to ensure accessibility to students and lay readers

Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science.* Discusses the pointed challenges posed by critics to the field of psychological research, which have given pause to psychological researchers across a broad spectrum of sub-fields* Argues that those conducting psychological research need to fundamentally change the way they think about data and results, in order to ensure that psychology has a firm basis in empirical science* Places the recent challenges discussed into a broad historical and conceptual perspective, and considers their implications for the future of psychological methodology and research* Challenges discussed include confirmation bias, the effects of grant pressure, false-positive findings, overestimating the efficacy of medications, and high correlations in functional brain imaging* Chapters are authored by internationally recognized experts in their fields, and are written with a minimum of specialized terminology to ensure accessibility to students and lay readers

List of Contributors viiIntroduction: Psychological Science in Perspective xPart I Cross-Cutting Challenges to Psychological Science 11 Maximizing the Reproducibility of Your Research 3Open Science Collaboration2 Powering Reproducible Research 22Katherine S. Button and Marcus R. Munafò3 Psychological Science's Aversion to the Null, and Why Many of the Things You Think Are True, Aren't 34Moritz Heene and Christopher J. Ferguson4 False Negatives 53Klaus Fiedler and Malte Schott5 Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science 73Etienne P. LeBel and Leslie K. John6 Decline Effects: Types, Mechanisms, and Personal Reflections 85John Protzko and Jonathan W. Schooler7 Reverse Inference 108Joachim I. Krueger8 The Need for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in Psychological Science 123Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Josine Verhagen, Alexander Ly, Dora Matzke, Helen Steingroever, Jeffrey N. Rouder, and Richard D. MoreyPart II Domain-Specific Challenges to Psychological Science 1399 The (Partial but) Real Crisis in Social Psychology: A Social Influence Analysis of the Causes and Solutions 141Anthony R. Pratkanis10 Popularity as a Poor Proxy for Utility: The Case of Implicit Prejudice 164Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock11 Suspiciously High Correlations in Brain Imaging Research 196Edward Vul and Harold Pashler12 Critical Issues in Genetic Association Studies 221Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, Amy Adkins, Irwin D. Waldman, and Danielle Dick13 Is the Efficacy of "Antidepressant" Medications Overrated? 250Brett J. Deacon and Glen I. Spielmans14 Pitfalls in Parapsychological Research 271Ray HymanPart III Psychological and Institutional Obstacles to High-Quality Psychological Science 29515 Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology 297Robert J. MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter16 Allegiance Effects in Clinical Psychology Research and Practice 323Marcus T. Boccaccini, David Marcus, and Daniel C. Murrie17 We Can Do Better than Fads 340Robert J. SternbergAfterword: Crisis? What Crisis? 349Paul BloomIndex 356