{"id":42425,"date":"2015-08-27T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42425"},"modified":"2015-08-27T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T20:51:51","slug":"many-psychology-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42425","title":{"rendered":"Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/28\/science\/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bencareynyt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Benedict Carey<\/strong><\/a>, Science Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/health\/research\/noted-dutch-psychologist-stapel-accused-of-research-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">was caught<\/a> fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published <a href=\"http:\/\/caps.ucsf.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/bem2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a study<\/a> supporting the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extrasensory_perception\" target=\"_blank\">ESP<\/a>. The journal <em>Science<\/em> pulled a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/policy\/2015\/05\/science-retracts-gay-marriage-paper-without-lead-author-s-consent\" target=\"_blank\">political science paper<\/a> on the effect of gay canvassers on voters\u2019 behavior \u2013 also because of concerns about fake data.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Virginia psychologist decided in 2011 to find out whether such suspect science was a widespread problem. He and his team recruited more than 250 researchers, identified 100 studies that had each been published in one of three leading journals in 2008, and rigorously redid the experiments in close collaboration with the original authors.<\/p>\n<p>The results are now in: More than 60 of the studies did not hold up. They include findings that were circulated at the time \u2014 that a strong skepticism <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/19\/1\/49.short\" target=\"_blank\">of free will<\/a> increases the likelihood of cheating; that physical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/acmelab\/articles\/Spatial_distance_Psych_Science.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">distances<\/a> could subconsciously influence people\u2019s sense of personal closeness; that <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/19\/2\/145.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">attached women<\/a> are more attracted to single men when highly fertile than when less so.<\/p>\n<p>The new analysis, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/ezcuj\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reproducibility Project<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aac4716\" target=\"_blank\">posted Thursday by <em>Science<\/em><\/a>, found no evidence of fraud or that any original study was definitively false. Rather, it concluded that the evidence for most published findings was not nearly as strong as originally claimed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/28\/science\/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says The New York Times 2015-08-27 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8],"tags":[20848,2640,20849,2327],"class_list":["post-42425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-benedict-carey","tag-new-york-times","tag-reproducibility-project","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42427,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42425\/revisions\/42427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}