Scientists are enthusiastically imagining ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) tools might
improve research. Why are AI tools so attractive and what are the risks of implementing them …

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially
lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a …

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

A typical empirical study involves choosing a sample, a research design, and an analysis
path. Variation in such choices across studies leads to heterogeneity in results that introduce …

Scientific research demands robust findings, yet variability in results persists due to
researchers' decisions in data analysis. Despite strict adherence to state‐of the‐art …

Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena
is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone …

Trust in political actors and institutions has long been seen as essential for effective
democratic governance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, trust was widely identified as key …

Recent years have marked a renaissance in efforts to increase research reproducibility in
psychology, neuroscience, and related fields. Reproducibility is the cornerstone of a solid …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic
and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health …

Facility operations and maintenance are defined as the functions, duties, and labor required
daily to operate and preserve a facility asset to ensure its original function is available for its …