Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science

Replication—an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice—is gaining appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research progress. If findings are not replicable, then prediction and theory development are stifled. If findings are replicable, then interrogation of their meaning and validity can advance knowledge. Assessing replicability can be productive for generating and testing hypotheses by actively confronting current understandings to identify weaknesses and spur innovation. For psychology, the 2010s might be characterized as a decade of active confrontation. Systematic and multi-site replication projects assessed current understandings and observed surprising failures to replicate many published findings. Replication efforts highlighted sociocultural challenges such as disincentives to conduct replications and a tendency to frame replication as a personal attack rather than a healthy scientific practice, and they raised awareness that replication contributes to self-correction. Nevertheless, innovation in doing and understanding replication and its cousins, reproducibility and robustness, has positioned psychology to improve research practices and accelerate progress

Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist.

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Beyond trauma? memories of Joi/y and memory play in Blade Runner 2049

Cultural memory studies finds itself at an impasse: whereas ‘cultural memory’ is conceptualized as mediated, dynamic, imaginative and shaped by the present, the dominant paradigm of ‘trauma’ illuminates the hold the past has on us, casting the shadow of a melancholic subjectivity that threatens to obscure our agency as (political) subjects. This article asks what lies in store for memory studies beyond the focus on (classic) trauma (theory). Using the movie Blade Runner 2049 (US 2017; dir: Denis Villeneuve) as an illustrative example, it explores how creative and joyful forms of meaning-making through play and acts of memory inform each other in what the psychoanalyst DW Winnicott described as ‘cultural experience’

A consensus-based transparency checklist

We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository

Why Has Personality Psychology Played an Outsized Role in the Credibility Revolution?

21 pages. Published at PsychOpen: 10.5964/ps.6001Personality is not the most popular subfield of psychology. But, in one way or another, personality psychologists have played an outsized role in the ongoing “credibility revolution” in psychology. Not only have individual personality psychologists taken on visible roles in the movement, but our field’s practices and norms have now become models for other fields to emulate (or, for those who share Baumeister’s (2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.003) skeptical view of the consequences of increasing rigor, a model for what to avoid). In this article we discuss some unique features of our field that may have placed us in an ideal position to be leaders in this movement. We do so from a subjective perspective, describing our impressions and opinions about possible explanations for personality psychology’s disproportionate role in the credibility revolution. We also discuss some ways in which personality psychology remains less-than-optimal, and how we can address these flaws

A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries and regions (n = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vesus both control conditions) consistently reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing interventions had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world

Museums and the Educational Turn: History, Memory, Inclusivity

Responding to feminist, postcolonial, and memorialistic critiques, museums have over the past decades radically revised their protocols of collection and display, aiming to register in their own curatorial and pedagogical practice the open and contested nature of the historical and ethnographic narratives on which their object lessons had traditionally conferred the status of hard evidence

Consumo di suolo, Servizi ecosistemici e Green infrastructures: Metodi, ricerche e progetti innovativi per incrementare il Capitale naturale e migliorare la resilienza urbana. Rapporto CRCS 2022

La consapevolezza del valore del Suolo - quale bene comune, finito, non rinnovabile ed essenziale per il benessere dell’uomo - richiede necessariamente una conoscenza trasversale e multidisciplinare della risorsa nonchè una condivisione dei saperi per attuare delle strategie appropriate ed efficaci di tutela e conservazione finalizzate a migliorare e incrementare le prestazioni del Suolo nel fornire benefici, diretti e indiretti, all’uomo azzerandone il degrado. Conoscere la risorsa Suolo significa adottare innanzitutto un approccio basato sui Servizi ecosistemici valutando le relative performance e definendo progetti territoriali ad alta capacità ecosistemica attuando azioni conservative di tipo nature-based e pianificando territori resilienti ad adattivi capaci di contrastare gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici. Il Rapporto 2022 del Centro di Ricerca sui Consumi di Suolo (CRCS) intende ragionare su questi temi cercando di fornire un quadro completo e innovativo sullo stato della risorsa Suolo in Italia e sulle progettualità dedicate alla sua conservazione e tutela. Il volume è articolato in 3 sezioni tematiche: la prima è finalizzata ad analizzare le dinamiche relative alle trasformazioni d’uso del suolo e la loro interpretazione ai fini dell’attivazione di strategie e politiche di contenimento, anche in considerazione degli indirizzi europei. La seconda sezione raccoglie esperienze, casi e buone pratiche di progettazione di infrastrutture verdi e blu basate sulla valutazione e mappatura dei Servizi ecosistemici per migliorare il benessere collettivo. L’ultima sezione mette a sistema i risultati emersi durante alcune recenti ricerche internazionali dedicate al Suolo che hanno permesso di accrescere la conoscenza e la consapevolezza del ruolo fondamentale svolto dalla risorsa nel contibuire a migliorare le condizioni e la qualità della vita dell’uomo