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Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psycholog...

Materias / palabras clave: psychology, psychological science, research methods, replication, metascience, registered replication report; Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology

Materias / palabras clave: psychology, psyhological science, educational psychology; Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology

Construct Validity in Psychological TestsVALIDATION of psychological tests has not yet been adequately concep tua1ized, as the APA Committee on Psychological Tests learned when it undertook to specify what qualities shou...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a relatively new website that contains the major elements required to conduct research: an integrated participant compensation system; a large participant pool; and a streamlined proce...

The difficulties inherent in obtaining consistent and adequate diagnoses for the purposes of research and therapy have been pointed out by a number of authors. Pasamanick12in a recent article viewed the low interclinicia...

BACKGROUND: There is a growing recognition of the value of synthesising qualitative research in the evidence base in order to facilitate effective and appropriate health care. In response to this, methods for undertaking...

An unresolved issue in the field of implementation research is how to conceptualize and evaluate successful implementation. This paper advances the concept of "implementation outcomes" distinct from service system and cl...

Materias / palabras clave: Systematic review; Checklist; Psychological intervention; Guideline; MEDLINE; Health care; Medicine; Psychology; Management science; Nursing; Pathology; Political science

Computer systems cannot improve organizational performance if they aren't used. Unfortunately, resistance to end-user systems by managers and professionals is a widespread problem. To better predict, explain, and increas...

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Although the partitioning of a total effect into direct and indirect components in the manner described here does not require the assumption that the erro...

In the context of the development of prototypic assessment instruments in the areas of cognition, personality, and adaptive functioning, the issues of standardization, norming procedures, and the important psychometrics ...

Human beings can be proactive and engaged or, alternatively, passive and alienated, largely as a function of the social conditions in which they develop and function. Accordingly, research guided by self-determination th...

The present article presents an integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment. This theory states that psychological procedures, whatever their...

Abstract Self-determination theory (SDT) maintains that an understanding of human motivation requires a consideration of innate psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. We discuss the SDT concept of...

The dominant model of disease today is biomedical, and it leaves no room within tis framework for the social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. A biopsychosocial model is proposed that provides a bluep...

For any given research area, one cannot tell how many studies have been con-ducted but never reported. The extreme view of the "file drawer problem " is that journals are filled with the 5 % of the stud...

The theoretical framework presented in this article explains expert performance as the end result of individuals ' prolonged efforts to improve performance while negotiating motivational and external constraints...

This analysis considers the impact of the top managers in an organization on the organization's outcomes, specifically strategic choices and performance levels. The focus is not on the chief executive alone, but rather o...

Statistical procedures for missing data have vastly improved, yet misconception and unsound practice still abound. The authors frame the missing-data problem, review methods, offer advice, and raise issues that remain un...

Materias / palabras clave: epidemiology, mental health, psychiatry, psychological medicine, cognitive science, behavioural science; Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry; Medicine: Public aspects of med...

Materias / palabras clave: sociology and social work, historical analysis and cultural studies, linguistics and literature, psychological and behavioral studies; Social Sciences

Materias / palabras clave: pedagogy, didactic research, educational science, sociology of education, cognitive processes, psychological studies; Education

Materias / palabras clave: imagery, imagination, visual science, graphic science, psychological science, pedagogical sciences; Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology; Fine Arts: Visual arts