7 articles
All articlesFrançois Léonard & Ezio Tirelli
Introduction: In recent decades, concerns have been raised about the validity and reliability of many research results. Inadequate research practices, including insufficient statistical power, have contributed to the replication crisis. The statistical tests of numerous studies in the…
Lukas K. Sotola
Affective polarization, people’s emotional attachment to their own party and dislike of rival parties, has been a growing area of interest in recent decades. However, studies on affective polarization have tended to use difference score measures to capture affective polarization. Specifically, it is…
Amber Copeland
In this manuscript, I provide a reflection on Bartlett et al.'s (2022) study, No Meaningful Difference in Attentional Bias Between Daily and Non-Daily Smokers . I begin with an overview of attentional bias and its measurement in addiction research, followed by a summary of the study by Bartlett et…
Mette Elise Tunset, Francis Combes & Hanne Haslene-Hox
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is hypothesized to play a role in the pathophysiology of psychosis. However, studying this structure in living humans is challenging due to limitations in current methods that fail to identify subtle changes or dysfunctions. We aimed to develop a method to isolate…
Howard Browman, Seth S. Leopold & Kent R. Anderson
While acknowledging that peer review is imperfect, we argue that preprint servers, which disseminate non-peer-reviewed research, represent a significant risk to society. Preprints can lead to the spread of misinformation, undermine public trust in science, and contribute to harmful public health…
Folco Panizza, Thomas Camminga, Stefan Gaillard & David Joachim Grüning
Harjani et al. (2023) conducted a gamified inoculation intervention against misinformation in rural India. Despite the ingenuity of the intervention design, the study revealed no significant effects on participants' ability to detect misinformation, highlighting cultural and digital barriers to…
Moin Syed
If a study is preregistered, but nobody checks it during review, does it mean anything? The purpose of this preregistered study was to better understand how editors and reviewers engage with preregistration plans during the review process. The article set was retrieved from the PLOS family of…
