What are the defining characteristics of a good psychology study? We received this excellent question from a listener and decided to do a whole episode on this idea.
Some of the topics discussed:
When’s the last time you saw a psych study that only reported a t-test?
Dan and James’ new paper on worry and heart rate variability
Skepticism towards studies with many variables and ‘novel’ statistical approaches (that tend to always provide marvellous results)
Repeated measures ANOVAs vs. linear mixed models
Publishing convenient ideas, even if they’re wrong
Fishing expeditions
The ‘nocebo’ effect in action
What are markers of study quality?
Pre-registering studies - can it be gamed?
The gradual improvement of psychology studies
Links
Dan and James' new paper on worry and heart rate variability
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255891
The paper that said "Encouraging experimental psychologists to use LMMs was like giving shotguns to toddlers.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25657634
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