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July-August 2021 updates: Media, publications, preprints, talks, and Autumn 2021-2 courses

Dear colleagues and friends,


This is meant as a quick update regarding our activities during the months of July and August 2021.

[Mailing list explanation: I started using an email mailing list to keep those who work with me, know me, and/or attend my activities updated about all that we're doing in my lab at HKU. I am hoping to help you in your research activities and slowly build a community interested in open-science to promote  a science reform. I add those who have asked me or corresponded with me about my research or activities. If you're not interested in further updates, links to unsubscribe available at the bottom. If others want to join or view previous emails: https://mgto.org/giladmailinglist]

 

Media attention


In the past 1-2 months we received some media attention, because one of our replications of Heyman and Ariely (2004) found errors in reporting in the original. We submitted our replications and extensions manuscript to Psychological Science, which desk rejected our manuscript, but the Editor decided to follow up and check the issue with the authors.
The result of that process was that the editor and Ariely issued an Expression of Concern for the original article, crediting our students for the wonderful work they did here. What the expression of concern does not mention is that the students also conducted rigorous replications and extensions of that original article. For the most part, we found support for their findings. 

Unfortunately, there were a lot of misunderstandings about what we did and our conclusions. To address those I wrote a long blog post about the process. Readings on that:
The most important takeaways for me here are:
  • Replications, extensions, and a detailed analysis of the original findings were conducted by our undergraduate students. Remarkable work with real impact.
  • Students and early-career researchers are our most undervalued, underappreciated, and underutilized stakeholder. Students can do high-quality science work, and are the key to a successful science reform and open science movement.
  • We cannot afford to wait decades to revisit, reassess, and replicate findings. We need to reward and motivate replications and assessments work. We need to be open to mistakes, to finding errors, and for doing  what is needed to evaluate and correct our literature. Science is complex, researchers are human. Open science is key to credibility and for minimizing and correcting problems.
  • Expression of concern would have been best accompanied by the journal taking responsibility for publishing replications of work published in that journal. There are no published replications of this work, and the expression of concern doesn't do enough to resolve issue. I hope we will find a journal to publish these replications to supplement this expression of concern.
 

In-press publications and preprints


(*: equal contribution; underlined: supervised students; ^: corresponding author; italic: invited ECR)

New publications:
  1. *Ziano, I., *Xiao, Q., *Yeung, S., *Wong, C., *Cheung, M., *Lo, J., *Yan, M., *Narendra, G., *Kwan, L., *Chow, C., *Man, C., & ^Feldman., G. (2021). Numbing or Sensitization? Replications and Extensions of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997)'s “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life”. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [Preprint]
  2. *Yeung, S., *Yay, T., & ^*Feldman, G. (2021). Action and inaction in moral judgments and decisions: Meta-analysis of Omission-Bias omission-commission asymmetries. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. [Preprint]

New preprints:
  1. *Korbmacher, M., *Ching, K., ^*Feldman, G. Both better and worse than others depending on difficulty: Replication of Kruger’s (1999) above and below average effects with extensions further manipulating and measuring abilities' difficulty and extending to a between-subject design. [Preprint
  2. Xiao, Q., & ^Feldman. G. Moral typecasting: Replications and extensions of Gray and Wegner (2009)'s studies on the inverse relationship between moral agency and moral patiency [Registered Report Stage 1]. [Preprint
  3. Yeung, S., & ^Feldman. G. Action-Inaction Asymmetries in Emotions and Counterfactual Thoughts: Meta-Analysis of the Action Effect [Registered Report Stage 1]. [Preprint

For a full list of publications and preprints from the mass replication project see: https://mgto.org/pre-registered-replications/#preprints  

 

Talks


I gave the following talks:  

Autumn 2021-2 courses at HKU

This semester I'm again teaching two sessions of Advanced Social Psychology (PSYC3052) and Judgment and Decision Making (PSYC2071). Both will be hybrid, meaning that we will conduct it face to face, masked and all, but all lectures are also recorded and shared.

You are invited to:
  1. Join us as peer-reviewers on this semester's replications and extensions projects. I'll finalize the list by end of second week, mid September. Contact me if you're interested. I'll announce more news on that soon.
  2. Follow all of the teaching lectures and materials and use it in any way you like. I would appreciate feedback and/or suggestions on how to improve.

Links:
 

 



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Feel free to share any of these with others. Happy to answer questions.

If you want to talk more about implementing open-science, registered reports, pre-registered replications, meta-analyses, etc. in your department and/or university, please do get in touch, I'm very happy to help.



Best regards,
 
--
Gilad Feldman (Fili)
Department of Psychology
University of Hong Kong
 
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