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Toward a More Perfect Psychology

Improving Trust, Accuracy, and Transparency in Research

Jonathan A Plucker editor Matthew C Makel editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:American Psychological Association

Published:15th May '17

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At its foundational level, the heart of science is that its methods allow for others to believe its results. This foundation is served by trust, accuracy, and transparency. Unfortunately, current research practices in psychology are known to produce inaccurate, irreproducible, and imprecise results.
 
This book introduces a plethora of strategies to help strengthen the field by improving research quality. Readers will learn how research methods are evolving and how to maximize the quality and impact of their own work. This includes strategies for not just developing research ideas, designing studies, and analyzing and disseminating results, but also evaluating and responding to the research of others. Toward a More Perfect Psychology is a vital step in making psychology a stronger, more rigorous science.
 

amp ldquo Makel and Plucker have provided psychologists a useful primer on the matters we face as we continue to promote ours as an empirical science of behavior that has long risen from armchair speculation. amp rdquo -PsycCRITIQUES

ISBN: 9781433827549

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323 pages