The “replication crisis” has been attributed to misguided external incentives gamed by
researchers (the strategic-game hypothesis). Here, I want to draw attention to a …

The widespread use of 'statistical significance'as a license for making a claim of a scientific
finding leads to considerable distortion of the scientific process (according to the American …

Science is undergoing a crisis that has been referred to, since the early 21st century, as a
crisis of confidence and a crisis of replication. This article reviews questions pertaining to the …

Various factors have been attributed to the inconsistent reproducibility of human oxytocin
research in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. These factors include small sample sizes …

The p value is still misinterpreted as the probability that the null hypothesis is true. Even
psychologists who correctly understand that p values do not provide this probability may not …

Much statistical teaching and many research reports focus on the 'null hypothesis
significance test'. Yet the correct meaning and interpretation of statistical significance tests is …

Since the mid-1950s, there has been a clear predominance of the Frequentist approach to
hypothesis testing, both in psychology and in social sciences. Despite its popularity in the …

In der (Pädagogischen) Psychologie sind Replikationsstudien bislang extrem seltene
Ausnahmen. Dieser Artikel legt dar, dass und warum Wiederholungsstudien unentbehrlich …

P values and confidence intervals (CIs) are the most widely used statistical indices in
scientific literature. Several surveys have revealed that these two indices are generally …

This paper is a reader-friendly introduction to Bayesian inference applied to psychological
science. We begin by explaining the difference between frequentist and epistemic …