{"id":142113,"date":"2015-08-28T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.simonw59.sg-host.com\/many-psychology-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says\/"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:45:25","slug":"many-psychology-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/many-psychology-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Psychology Findings Not as strong as Claimed, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ct_body\">\n<p>by Benedict Carey&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. &nbsp;A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. &nbsp;A top journal published a study supporting existing of ESP that was widely criticized. &nbsp;The Journal of Science pulled a political science paper on the effect of gay canvassers on voters&#039; behavior because of concerns about faked data. &nbsp;Now, a painstaking yearslong effort to reproduce 100 studies published in three leading psychology journals has found taht more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/28\/science\/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=1\">Read More<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ct_field\"><span class=\"ct_default\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/28\/science\/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ct_meta\"><span class=\"ct_label\">Archive:<\/span>&nbsp;<a class=\"ct_archive\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6622\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/archive.force11.net\/node\/6622<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Benedict Carey&nbsp; The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. &nbsp;A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. &nbsp;A top journal published a study supporting existing of ESP that was widely criticized. &nbsp;The Journal of Science pulled a political science &#8230; <a title=\"Many Psychology Findings Not as strong as Claimed, Study Says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/post\/many-psychology-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says\/\" aria-label=\"More on Many Psychology Findings Not as strong as Claimed, Study Says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"force11":[],"blog_series":[],"working_group":[],"class_list":["post-142113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Stephanie Hagstrom","author_link":"\/members\/shagstrom"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/force11.org\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 28 Aug 2015","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 28 Aug 2015 17:35","modified":"Updated on 26 May 2022 13:45"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142113"},{"taxonomy":"force11","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/force11?post=142113"},{"taxonomy":"blog_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_series?post=142113"},{"taxonomy":"working_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/force11.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/working_group?post=142113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}