Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt
In 2021, the German Psychological Society (DGPs) signed the DORA declaration. In consequence, they recently installed a task force with the goal to create a recommendation how a responsible research assessment could be practically implemented in hiring and promotion within Continue Reading …
I want to invest my reviewing work in research that is worth to be reviewed. Furthermore, I do not want to further increase the billion dollar donations to premium publishers any more. When deciding whether to accept or reject a review, I apply the following heuristics: Continue Reading …
by Felix Schönbrodt & Roland Ramthun The open availability of scientific material (such as research data, code, or other material) has often been identified as one cornerstone of a trustworthy, reproducible, and verifiable science. At the same time, the actual Continue Reading …
This is a guest post from Felix Suessenbach. Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2184 Download preprint for free here: https://psyarxiv.com/vquyh Reproducible R-scripts, codebooks, and open data for all studies: https://osf.io/uxtq2/ DOWNLOAD THE DOMINANCE, PRESTIGE, AND LEADERSHIP SCALES HERE: English: https://osf.io/n4pr5/ German: https://osf.io/hrnsz/ Continue Reading …
by Angelika Stefan & Felix Schönbrodt Almost all researchers have experienced the tingling feeling of suspense that arises right before they take a look at long-awaited data: Will they support their favored hypothesis? Will they yield interesting or even groundbreaking Continue Reading …
In 2015, the psychology department at LMU Munich for the first time announced a professorship position with an “open science statement” (see original job description here): Our department embraces the values of open science and strives for replicable and reproducible Continue Reading …
tl;dr: Publication bias and p-hacking can dramatically inflate effect size estimates in meta-analyses. Many methods have been proposed to correct for such bias and to estimate the underlying true effect. In a large simulation study, we studied which methods do Continue Reading …
Recently, Matt Motyl et al. (2017) posted a pre-print paper in which they contrasted the evidential value of several journals in two time periods (2003-2004 vs. 2013-2014). The paper sparked a lot of discussion in Facebook groups [1][2], blog posts Continue Reading …
tl;dr: The German Psychological Society developed and adopted new recommendations for data sharing that fully embrace openness, transparency and scientific integrity. Key message is that raw data are an essential part of an empirical publication and must be openly shared. Continue Reading …
by Angelika Stefan & Felix Schönbrodt This is the second part of “Two meanings of priors”. The first part explained a first meaning – “priors as subjective probabilities of models”. While the first meaning of priors refers to a global Continue Reading …