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SUMMARY:Moral overreach and ethical failure in setting psychological research standards by Prof Roger Giner-Sorolla
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nProfessor Roger Giner-Sorolla completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and was awarded his PhD in Social Psychology from New York University in 1996. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia and two-year-long contracts\, he joined the University of Kent in 2001. He was promoted to Professor in 2013 and has also been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology since 2016. Roger is an advocate of transparency in scientific reporting and has written several articles and editorials in support of improved reporting guidelines and pre-registration. He has taught Master’s statistics and methodology since 2001 at Kent. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. \n\nAbout the talk\n\nRecent discussions about research methods and reporting reform in psychology have often taken on a moralized tone. I will argue that any appeal to morality needs to be well-informed about the potential contradictions in open and robust standards\, showing a number of examples in which simplistic application leads reformers astray. I will also analyse the apparent moral failure to translate decades-old APA policy about ethical results reporting into workable\, enforced journal policy\, and point to some recent apparent successes. Instead of easy heuristics or unrealistic standards I advocate a focus on actionable changes that maximise the credibility of research.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/moral-overreach-and-ethical-failure-in-setting-psychological-research-standards-by-prof-roger-giner-sorolla/
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SUMMARY:The generalizability crisis by Dr Tal Yarkoni
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nTal Yarkoni a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. His academic work focuses on developing new tools and methods for the analysis of psychology and neuroimaging data. Tal mostly builds open-source software tools and writes methods-y papers about reproducibility\, data standards\, and best practices. He also has a background in substantive areas of psychology\, including personality\, executive control\, and psycholinguistics. \nAbout the talk \nMost theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature\, yet their evaluation overwhelmingly relies on inferential statistical procedures. The validity of the move from qualitative to quantitative analysis depends on the verbal and statistical expressions of a hypothesis being closely aligned—that is\, that the two must refer to roughly the same set of hypothetical observations. Here I argue that most inferential statistical tests in psychology fail to meet this basic condition. I demonstrate how foundational assumptions of the “random effects” model used pervasively in psychology impose far stronger constraints on the generalizability of results than most researchers appreciate. Ignoring these constraints dramatically inflates false positive rates and routinely leads researchers to draw sweeping verbal generalizations that lack any meaningful connection to the statistical quantities they are putatively based on. I argue that the routine failure to consider the generalizability of one’s conclusions from a statistical perspective lies at the root of many of psychology’s ongoing problems (e.g.\, the replication crisis)\, and conclude with a discussion of several potential avenues for improvement.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-generalizability-crisis-by-dr-tal-yarkoni/
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SUMMARY:Fast-tracked COVID-19 research: our experience by Prof Mitul Mehta & Dr Ndaba Mazibuko
DESCRIPTION:About the speakers \nProfessor Mitul Mehta \nProfessor Mitul Mehta graduated from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences\, where he also completed his PhD. An MRC Fellowship to train in positron emission tomography at Imperial College was followed by a Wellcome Trust Award to continue his research using magnetic resonance imaging at King’s. His investigations on the dopamine system and human cognitive function earned him the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) young investigator award in 2005. He has subsequently applied his research to assess novel drugs to improve brain function\, and studies the role of acquisition and analysis methods in pharmacological imaging. His group have developed pipelines suitable for assaying novel compounds and he has worked with numerous companies in this work. He is currently Head of the Neuropharmacology group in the Department of Neuroimaging\, Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology & Neuroscience\, Director of the newly formed Centre for Innovative Brain Therapeutics\, Deputy lead for Neuroimaging in the NIHR-BRC for Mental Health and Meetings Secretary for the BAP. \nDr Ndaba Mazibuko \nDr Ndaba Mazibuko is a Clinical Research Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience (Institute of Psychiatry\, Psychology and Neuroscience – King’s College London). His work includes clinical trial design and management with respect to pharmacological and neuroimaging studies including a role as a Medical Principal Investigator on a recent academic / industry clinical trial collaboration. He provides clinical oversight for the broad portfolio of the Department of Neuroimaging studies. His work has honed in on drug repurposing translation. He has recently joined the Centre for Innovative Therapeutics (C-FIT) as Repurposing Lead. Prior to clinical academia\, he worked as a Neurology and Acute Stroke Registrar at King’s College Hospital and has several years’ experience as a clinician in varied disciplines within the NHS in addition to clinical experience in Australia (where he trained) and also in Africa. \nAbout the talk \nDuring the current pandemic there has been an opportunity to develop research studies rapidly. This is necessarily opportunistic and for studies in patients the government has set up systems of prioritisation. Our experience of setting up two studies highlights some positives in terms of collegiate behaviour and collaboration potential. We also have acute experiences of the negative effects of fast-tracking in the UK. The desire for rapid answers\, at least for treatments\, has\, we believe\, created a paradoxical scenario whereby studies that can report rapidly are being delayed or even being denied access to patients. We will also talk about the events that have led to card-carrying brain researchers to spend so much time thinking about respiratory disease.
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/fast-tracked-covid-19-research-our-experience-by-prof-mitul-mehta-dr-ndaba-mazibuko/
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SUMMARY:The new heuristics: Jumping through hoops instead of improving our science by Prof Daniel Lakens
DESCRIPTION:About the talk \nPsychological science has been at the forefront of improving research practices. Yet\, psychology is also a strongly norm driven field\, and we risk replacing old norms with new norms\, without increasing true understanding or the ability to justify our actions. I will unsuccessfully try to prevent you from just adopting the New Heuristics of scientific reform. \n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\nProfessor Daniel Lakens is based at Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research focuses on how to design and interpret studies\, applied (meta)-statistics\, and reward structures in science\, as well as having research interests in conceptual thought and meaning. Daniel is noted for his teaching and creation of useful resources. He received the 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal prize for Open Social Science as a Leader in Education\, and his course on research methods for young scholars (here) is widely praised and highly subscribed\, along with his blog on methods and statistics and practical primers on effect sizes\, sequential analysis\, and equivalence tests. Recently\, Daniel has developed an interest in the importance of (preferably pre-registered) replications and ways to improve how we interpret and design studies. Daniel believes that we can try a little harder to make science as open and robust as possible\, and give the tax payer as much value for money as we can\, and that science should be a much more collaborative enterprise (see his TEDx talk on this topic here). \n\n\n 
URL:https://riotscience.co.uk/tribe-events/the-new-heuristics-jumping-through-hoops-instead-of-improving-our-science/
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