Confirmatory Research – A special issue of JESP

Catching up a bit, but in November of 2016 the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology published a special issue dedicated just to confirmatory research.  http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.cc.uic.edu/science/journal/00221031/67/supp/C

The whole issue is well-worth reading:

  • There is  an excellent guide to pre-registration (ostensibly for social psychologists, but really for anyone).   (van ’t Veer & Giner-Sorolla, 2016)
  • Lots of interesting pre-registered studies, like this one  (McCarthy, Coley, Wagner, Zengel, & Basham, 2016)
  • Many Labs 3 is published, which is completely fascinating.  (Ebersole et al., 2016)
  • And some fascinating commentaries, including this one about using MTurk samples.  (DeVoe & House, 2016)

References

DeVoe, S. E., & House, J. (2016, November). Replications with MTurkers who are naïve versus experienced with academic studies: A comment on Connors, Khamitov, Moroz, Campbell, and Henderson (2015). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.11.004
Ebersole, C. R., Atherton, O. E., Belanger, A. L., Skulborstad, H. M., Allen, J. M., Banks, J. B., … Nosek, B. A. (2016, November). Many Labs 3: Evaluating participant pool quality across the academic semester via replication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.012
McCarthy, R. J., Coley, S. L., Wagner, M. F., Zengel, B., & Basham, A. (2016, November). Does playing video games with violent content temporarily increase aggressive inclinations? A pre-registered experimental study. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.009
van ’t Veer, A. E., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2016, November). Pre-registration in social psychology—A discussion and suggested template. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.004
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