Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability

An academic scientist's professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore negative results. Prior reports demonstrate how th...

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Published in:Perspectives on psychological science 2012-11, Vol.7 (6), p.615-631
Main Authors: Nosek, Brian A., Spies, Jeffrey R., Motyl, Matt
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Accumulation
Data collection
Graduate students
Incentives
Literature
Motivation
Peer review
Personality psychology
Publishing
Reasoning
Research methods
Scholarly publishing
Social psychology
Special Section on Replicability in psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?
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