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This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) introductory paper or post or book explaining what ...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/08/15/after-the-methods-crisis-the-theory-crisis/

Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4 Before a research article is published in a journal you can make it freely available for anyone to read. You could do this on your own website, but yo...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/08/14/open-science-essentials-preprints/

Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 3 Let’s define it this way: reproducibility is when your experiment or data analysis can be reliably repeated. It isn’t replicability, which we can ...

https://mindhacks.com/2018/01/02/open-science-essentials-reproducibility/

Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 2 The Open Science Framework (osf.io) is a website designed for the complete life-cycle of your research project – designing projects; collaborating; ...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/11/09/open-science-essentials-the-open-science-framework/

Open Science essentials in 2 minutes, part 1 The Problem As a scholarly community we allowed ourselves to forget the distinction between exploratory vs confirmatory research, presenting explorato...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/11/09/open-science-essentials-pre-registration/

This piece is based on my talk to the UCL conference ‘The Role of Diagnosis in Clinical Psychology’. It was aimed at an audience of clinical psychologists but should be of interest more widel...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/

Dorothy Bishop has an excellent post ‘Ten serendipitous findings in psychology’, in which she lists ten celebrated discoveries which occurred by happy accident. Each discovery is interesting ...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/29/serendipity-in-psychological-research/

Many parents and teachers are critical of the Standardised Assessment Tests (SATs) that have recently been taken by primary school children. One common complaint is that they are too hard. Teache...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/13/good-tests-make-children-fail-heres-why/

BBC World Service has an excellent radio documentary on the history and practice of terrorist profiling. Unlike many pieces on the psychology of terrorism, which tend to take a Hollywood view of ...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/28/the-search-for-the-terrorist-type/

I’ve got an article in The Atlantic on the hypnagogic state – the brief hallucinatory period between wakefulness and sleep – and how it is being increasingly used as a tool to make sense of...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/20/a-brief-hallucinatory-twilight/