Registered Reports are a form of empirical publication in which study proposals are peer
reviewed and pre-accepted before research is undertaken. By deciding which articles are …

Empirical observations of how labs conduct research indicate that the adoption rate of open
practices for transparent, reproducible, and collaborative science remains in its infancy. This …

How to model cross-lagged relations in panel data continues to be a source of disagreement
in psychological research. While the cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was the modeling …

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 …

Drawing on the philosophy of psychological explanation, we suggest that psychological
science, by focusing on effects, may lose sight of its primary explananda: psychological …

Path models to test claims about mediation and moderation are a staple of psychology. But
applied researchers may sometimes not understand the underlying causal inference …

In recent years, a growing chorus of researchers has argued that psychological theory is in a
state of crisis: Theories are rarely developed in a way that indicates an accumulation of …

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 …

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful
conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of …

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 …