Psychology As Fast As Possible

Things on the Internet to supplement Psych 101 (Introduction to Psychology), 105 (Research in Psychology), 135 (Sensation & Perception), and 195 (Cyberpsychology) /fsmb-upddp/

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Explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

Forced curves and questionable trends.

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Repeat After Me

Psychology's reproducibility problem

Psychology’s replication crisis: where it began, and where we’re going. [Replication Series #8]

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Historical and sociopolitical factors can tear the same language into estranged twins that sound nowhere near each other.

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We’re so used to having a voice to speak with - what happens when it’s gone?

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What a nerdy debate about p-values shows about science — and how to fix it

The case for, and against, redefining "statistical significance."

A brief introduction on how statistics works (or doesn’t). [Replication Series #7]

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Open science is now the only way forward for psychology

Next week the Guardian will be closing the Science Blog Network. We take a final look at the journey psychology has made toward becoming a robust and mature science

A short overview of the crisis in psychology, and what the field is doing to rise against it. [Replication Series #6]

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Concerning everything, think twice.

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Colors are beautiful and occasionally deadly.

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"Professor Schlockenmeister, I know that we have to learn about visual perception in your course, but aren't we going to learn anything about extrasensory perception? My high school psychology teacher told us …

Treading the thin line between science and false appearances.

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A brief introduction to how VR works.

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There are many good ways to review - re-reading is not one of them.

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Design is supposed to help - not harm - the user.

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Making you stay by making it hard to leave.

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Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real. Which Means Science Is Broken.

The scientist couldn't have foreseen the crisis his research would touch off.

The original study was named “Feeling the Future” (Bem, 2011). Eventually, with the original debunked, psychologists wrote “Correcting the Past” (Galak et al., 2012). [Replication Series #5]

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That study on artificially intelligent “gaydar” is now under ethical review

The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is reviewing a controversial study after a backlash from scientists and LGBTQ advocates.

It’s one thing to get findings - it’s another thing altogether to conclude too much from too little. [Replication Series #4.2]

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Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine

Scientists worried that facial recognition software could be used to detect sexual orientation. Their efforts to raise an alarm caused an uproar.

Computers don’t lie - people can. [Replication Series #4.1]

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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature.

Great findings are sometimes too good to be true. [Replication Series #3]