Psychological Science Under Scrutiny

Scott O. Lilienfeld is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. His principal areas of research are personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience in mental health, and the teaching of psychology. He is the author or co-author of numerous publications including 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology (Wiley, 2009), and is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology (Wiley, 2015). Irwin D. Waldman is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. His research centers on the classification, development, and etiology of children’s psychiatric disorders and behavior problems, social behavior and social cognition, and temperament and personality. He is the author of numerous articles within leading journals in the field, and is an Associate Editor of the journal Behavioral Genetics.

• List of Contributors viiIntroduction: Psychological Science in Perspective xPart I Cross‐Cutting Challenges to Psychological Science 11 Maximizing the Reproducibility of Your Research 3Open Science Collaboration2 Powering Reproducible Research 22Katherine S. Button and Marcus R. Munafò3 Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null, and Why Many of the Things You Think Are True, Aren’t 34Moritz Heene and Christopher J. Ferguson4 False Negatives 53Klaus Fiedler and Malte Schott5 Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science 73Etienne P. LeBel and Leslie K. John6 Decline Effects: Types, Mechanisms, and Personal Reflections 85John Protzko and Jonathan W. Schooler7 Reverse Inference 108Joachim I. Krueger8 The Need for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in Psychological Science 123Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Josine Verhagen, Alexander Ly, Dora Matzke, Helen Steingroever, Jeffrey N. Rouder, and Richard D. MoreyPart II Domain‐Specific Challenges to Psychological Science 1399 The (Partial but) Real Crisis in Social Psychology: A Social Influence Analysis of the Causes and Solutions 141Anthony R. Pratkanis10 Popularity as a Poor Proxy for Utility: The Case of Implicit Prejudice 164Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock11 Suspiciously High Correlations in Brain Imaging Research 196Edward Vul and Harold Pashler12 Critical Issues in Genetic Association Studies 221Elizabeth Prom‐Wormley, Amy Adkins, Irwin D. Waldman, and Danielle Dick13 Is the Efficacy of “Antidepressant” Medications Overrated? 250Brett J. Deacon and Glen I. Spielmans14 Pitfalls in Parapsychological Research 271Ray HymanPart III Psychological and Institutional Obstacles to High‐Quality Psychological Science 29515 Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology 297Robert J. MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter16 Allegiance Effects in Clinical Psychology Research and Practice 323Marcus T. Boccaccini, David Marcus, and Daniel C. Murrie17 We Can Do Better than Fads 340Robert J. SternbergAfterword: Crisis? What Crisis? 349Paul BloomIndex 356