Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the use of behavioural science to address the
priorities of public and private sector actors. There is now a vibrant ecosystem of …

The topic of mental state attribution to robots has been approached by researchers from a
variety of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and …

Meehl argued in 1978 that theories in psychology come and go, with little cumulative
progress. We believe that this assessment still holds, as also evidenced by increasingly …

Psychology endeavors to develop theories of human capacities and behaviors on the basis
of a variety of methodologies and dependent measures. We argue that one of the most …

The applied social science literature using factor and network models continues to grow
rapidly. Most work reads like an exercise in model fitting, and falls short of theory building …

Over the past decade, there has been a surge of empirical research investigating mental
disorders as complex systems. In this article, we investigate how to best make use of this …

Replication is a key activity in scientific endeavors. Yet explicit replications are rare in many
fields, including education and psychology. In this article, we discuss the relevance and …

Due to the methodological challenges inherent in studying social media use (SMU), as well
as the methodological choices that have shaped research into the effects of SMU on well …

Although psychology's recent crisis has been attributed to various scientific practices, it has
come to be called a “replication crisis,” prompting extensive appraisals of this putatively …

Current attempts at methodological reform in sciences come in response to an overall lack of
rigor in methodological and scientific practices in experimental sciences. However, most …