Abstract:The recent replication crisis in psychology has alerted researchers to the presence of suboptimal research practices ― that are not the cases of fraud per se ― such as the practice of stopping data collection or deleting some of the data to attain statistical significance and the tendency to refrain from publishing null results. The suboptimal research practices may be motivated by the theoretical biases a researcher ― consciously or unconsciously ― holds and may be facilitated by the flexibility in collecting… Show more
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