THE CONVERSATION: There’s a crisis in psychology – here’s how technology could provide a solution

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Psychologists obediently follow the same rules as other scientists. But their efforts haven’t yielded equivalent progress. In fact, in the last decade, psychologists have realised that some of their most intriguing findings are not reliable – when other researchers try to repeat the same study, they don’t find the same results.

Period21 May 2018

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  • TitleThere’s a crisis in psychology – here’s how technology could provide a solution
    Media name/outletThe Conversation
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date21/05/18
    DescriptionPsychologists obediently follow the same rules as other scientists. But their efforts haven’t yielded equivalent progress. In fact, in the last decade, psychologists have realised that some of their most intriguing findings are not reliable – when other researchers try to repeat the same study, they don’t find the same results.
    URLhttps://theconversation.com/theres-a-crisis-in-psychology-heres-how-technology-could-provide-a-solution-94674
    PersonsWarren Mansell

Keywords

  • psychology
  • virtual reality
  • scientific method