Here is a brief update to my two previous posts on the flawed study published in Psychological Medicine. To recap, the study found that almost half of the respondents in a UK sample agree that the “[c]oronavirus is a bioweapon developed by China to destroy the West”. In a new study, John Garry, Rob Ford […]
Tag: methods
25 guidelines for improving psychological research
I was rereading the paper ‘The New Statistics: Why and How‘ published in Psychological Science the other day. It’s a great paper and I can highly recommend reading it. If you are busy (and I guess you are), make sure to at least read the 25 guidelines for improving psychological research (in Table 1). Here […]
Confusing and misleading terms in psychology
I was reading a couple of articles with examples of terms in psychological research that are either confusing, ambiguous or misleading. The two articles are Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases (Lilienfeld et al. 2015) and 50 Differences That Make a […]
10 method books you should read before you die
In this post you will find my 10 recommendations for method books you should read (or at least buy to impress your so-called friends). I have tried my best to put some order into the list so you can begin from the beginning. However, you should be able to read the books in any order […]