'Justify your Alpha': how 88 scientists wrote a Nature journal paper via Google Docs

Working together, we get the job done: our paper on justifying your alpha, recently accepted by Nature Human Behavior, was the fruit of a great collaboration by 88 authors. How? Google Docs!

Zsuzsika Sjoerds • February 28, 2018

How do I know if it is fake or true news?

'I care about science and accurate information first as a citizen and secondly as a researcher. Why? Because as a researcher I know what is going on in my field and I have access to accurate knowledge in that field. But as a citizen, there are limits...

Klodiana Daphne Tona • April 21, 2017

Connecting clinical decision- making and psychological research with rule-based methods

Psychologists working in practice have to make decisions about clients, with limited time and information. New data-analytic algorithms may provide empirical research results that are more efficient and easier to apply in psychological practice.

Marjolein Fokkema • November 10, 2015

Alternative medicine and the placebo effect

A lot of money is spent on alternative medicine, even though there is no scientific evidence that its benefits are anything more than a placebo effect. But if it makes patients feel better, is there actually anything wrong with these treatments?

Sabine Peters • March 24, 2014

Truly awesome data

Researchers perform studies to test their hypothesis. Yet, some hypotheses require data so special, that they are rarely tested. The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety provides researchers in Leiden, Amsterdam, and Groningen with such special data

Anne-Wil Kruijt • December 09, 2013

Can thinking of a professor really make you smarter?

Diederik Stapel's fraudulent practice has highlighted the importance of replication in psychology. Does the famous study of Ap Dijksterhuis, which shows that thinking of professors improves test scores, survive a replication attempt?

Sabine Peters • June 06, 2013

Illuminate your mind: neuromodulation at the speed of light

Optogenetics has been chosen as 'Method of the year 2010' by the journal Nature Methods. But what exactly is optogenetics? And how can we use this neuromodulation technique to better understand behaviour?

Claudia Pama • May 27, 2013

Where on earth did the effect go?

One replication is worth at least a thousand t-tests, indeed, but several replications (let’s say about twenty) and well-powered studies are worth at least a million t-tests.

Marc Molendijk • March 19, 2013

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