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Shall we do it Again? Wishful Thinking and the Current State of Credibility in Psychology

Around the turn of the millennium, concerns about the replicability of medical and social scientific findings began to grow. Amusingly unlikely results, including claims about…

SIOS EditorsMarch 27, 2024

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 431: Disconnect

The Cost of Credibility: Exploring the Market for Paid Academic Publications

Obtaining a doctoral degree typically requires the publication of an average of four first-author papers. This requirement has been established with the intention of fostering…

SIOS EditorsFebruary 27, 2024

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 428: Alive

Open Science Practices- Should I Implement Them?

About the Author Mohammad is a recent graduate from the Research Master Psychology at the UvA. He is interested in social cognitive neuroscience, and specifically…

SIOS EditorsNovember 6, 2023

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 427: Anomalies

Robust Effects, No Theory Attached

INTRO It’s a busy night in the theater of soon-to-be-forgotten psychology essays: researchers are preregistering their guesses regarding the performance; the puppeteer is frenetically replacing…

SIOS EditorsSeptember 22, 2023

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 426: Liberation

A Future Vision of Psychology’s Renaissance on Three Levels of the Research Ecosystem

About the Author Kati is a first-year Psychology Research Masters student at the University of Amsterdam and is enthusiastic about clinical and social psychological research.…

SIOS EditorsMay 10, 2023

News & opinion SIOS Spiegeloog 425: Vision

Beyond the Grid

About the Author Nita is a first year MSc Biomedical Sciences student at the UvA. Interested in pursuing a career in psychopathological research, she is…

SIOS EditorsApril 11, 2023

SIOS Spiegeloog 419: Harmony

The Inception of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

About the Author Nita is a final-year psychology student at the UvA, specializing in Brain & Cognition with a minor in Biomedical Sciences: Neurobiology. Interested…

SIOS EditorsJune 22, 2022

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 418: Time

Misused Metrics and the Quest to Quantify Good Science

Humans have an innate need to quantify success in an objective and simple manner. We operationalize our achievements in order to estimate our position in…

SIOS EditorsApril 15, 2022

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 417: Science

Open Science While Everything Else is Closed: Transparent Research and the Fight Against COVID-19

About the Author Julius is a final-year Research Master student at the UvA. Specializing in clinical and social psychology, his main interests are schizotypy research,…

SIOS EditorsMarch 2, 2022

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 417: Science

From Public Findings to Private Journals

About the Author Elias is a final-year business administration student specializing in finance at the UvA. About the Author Elias is a final-year…

SIOS EditorsFebruary 25, 2022

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 417: Science

Understanding Statistics: Why Critical Thinking Skills Are Essential for Future Researchers

About the Author Nita is a final-year psychology student at the UvA, specializing in Brain & Cognition with a minor in Biomedical Sciences: Neurobiology. Interested…

SIOS EditorsFebruary 21, 2022

Science SIOS Spiegeloog 417: Science

Introducing (the Student Initiative for) Open Science

Open Science is just science done right. It is how we learn to conduct science during our studies. As scientists, we follow the scientific method…

SIOS EditorsFebruary 15, 2022