The Rules of the Game Called Psychological Science

By Marjan Bakker, Annette van Dijk, Jelte M. Wicherts. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012

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The Power of Bias in Economics Research (2017, background): “In industrial psychology, it ranges between 40% and 60% (Schmidt and Hunter, 2015) but has an average of 35% more broadly in psychology (Bakker et al., 2012).”
Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology † (2013, background): “Bakker et al. (2012) showed that the most successful strategy for finding a statistically significant result is to go against the recommendations of the target article and to run a large number of flexibly analysed studies with very small samples.”
An Agenda for Purely Confirmatory Research (2012, positive): “(Goldacre, 2009, pp. 220–221) We believe this idea has great potential for psychological science as well (see also Bakker et al., 2012; Nosek et al.,”
The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI (2017, background): “The difference between the two types of power might also explain the prevalence of underpowered fMRI studies: one could argue that in order to publish a paper one needs only a single significant finding [27], and not necessarily to identify all aactiveo voxels.”
Are bilingual advantages dependent upon specific tasks or specific bilingual experiences? (2014, background): “For all of psychological science Bakker et al. (2012) determined that 96% of research articles report significant results but typical studies are insufficiently powerful for such a track record.”