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The following is a guest post by Neil Lewis, Jr.
Disclaimer: Before I begin, I want to start by acknowledging a major constraint on the generalizability of what I am about to say. In this post I will use the term “psychologist” periodically for the sake of brevity, instead of explicitly naming every...

I had the honor to deliver the closing address to the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science on July 9, 2019 in Rotterdam. The following are my prepared remarks. (These remarks are also archived on PsyArXiv.)
Some years ago, not long after people in psychology began talking in earnest about a replication crisis and what to do about it, I was talking with a colleague who has been around the field for longer than I have. He said to me, “Oh, this is all just...

The following is a guest post by Rob Chavez.
If I’m ever asked ‘what was a defining moment of your career?’, I can think of a very specific instance that has stuck with me since my early days as a student in social neuroscience. I was at a journal club meeting where we were discussing an early...

There is a popular adage about academic writing: “Writing is thinking.” The idea is this: There is a simple view of writing as just an expressive process – the ideas already exist in your mind and you are just putting them on a page. That may in fact...