Improving methodological standards in behavioral interventions for cognitive enhancement

C Shawn Green, D Bavelier, AF Kramer… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2019 - Springer
There is substantial interest in the possibility that cognitive skills can be improved by
dedicated behavioral training. Yet despite the large amount of work being conducted in this …

Measuring memory is harder than you think: How to avoid problematic measurement practices in memory research

TF Brady, MM Robinson, JR Williams… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
We argue that critical areas of memory research rely on problematic measurement practices
and provide concrete suggestions to improve the situation. In particular, we highlight the …

Making replication mainstream

RA Zwaan, A Etz, RE Lucas… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Many philosophers of science and methodologists have argued that the ability to repeat
studies and obtain similar results is an essential component of science. A finding is elevated …

Gamified inoculation interventions do not improve discrimination between true and fake news: Reanalyzing existing research with receiver operating characteristic …

A Modirrousta-Galian, PA Higham - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Gamified inoculation interventions designed to improve the detection of online
misinformation are becoming increasingly prevalent. Two of the most notable interventions …

The forgotten history of signal detection theory.

JT Wixted - Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Signal detection theory is one of psychology's most well-known and influential theoretical
frameworks. However, the conceptual hurdles that had to be overcome before the theory …

Theoretically informed generative models can advance the psychological and brain sciences: Lessons from the reliability paradox

N Haines, PD Kvam, LH Irving, C Smith… - 2020 - osf.io
Theories of individual differences are foundational to psychological and brain sciences, yet
they are traditionally developed and tested using superficial summaries of data (eg, mean …

The Misuse of Tobin's q

R Bartlett, F Partnoy - Vand. L. Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
For several decades, scholars have assessed many of the key concepts in corporate law by
studying empirically how they impact the value of corporations. For example, one central …

An overview of scientific reproducibility: Consideration of relevant issues for behavior science/analysis

S Laraway, S Snycerski, S Pradhan… - Perspectives on Behavior …, 2019 - Springer
For over a decade, the failure to reproduce findings in several disciplines, including the
biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences, have led some authors to claim that there is a …

The grammaticality asymmetry in agreement attraction reflects response bias: Experimental and modeling evidence

C Hammerly, A Staub, B Dillon - Cognitive psychology, 2019 - Elsevier
Memory access mechanisms such as cue-based retrieval have come to dominate theories of
the processing of linguistic dependencies such as subject-verb agreement. One …

Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human-speech analyses

S Coretta, JV Casillas, S Roessig… - … in Methods and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data
analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on the same data set …