The same old New Look: Publication bias in a study of wishful seeing

By Gregory Francis. 2012

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A recent study reported evidence of “wishful seeing,” where observers reported seeing a desired object as being closer than other objects. A statistical analysis of the experimental findings reveals evidence of publication bias in the study, so the existence of wishful seeing remains unproven.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences

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Assessing the Role of the ‘Unity Assumption’ on Multisensory Integration: A Review (2017, background): “…accepting that merely the observer’s conscious belief10 regarding certain stimuli belonging together were able to change the degree of multisensory integration would take us into the issue of cognitive penetrability (e.g., Macpherson, 2012), and ‘the new look’ movement (e.g., Francis, 2012).”
Replication, statistical consistency, and publication bias. (2013, methodology): “It is true that there is uncertainty about the true e↵ect size of each experiment, but using simulation studies, Francis (2012e) estimated that the 95% confidence interval for P c ranged from 5.84⇥10 5 to 0.107 for the experimental results reported by Pi↵, Stancato, Côté, Mendoza-Denton & Keltner…”
The Rules of the Game Called Psychological Science (2012, background): “…replicate earlier indicators of the prevalence of funnel plot asymmetry in 99 psychological meta-analyses (Ferguson & Brannick, 2012; Levine, Asada, & Carpenter, 2009) and the finding of an excess of significant results in four areas of psychological research (Francis, 2012a, 2012b, in press).”