Olmo van den Akker

Methodology and Statisticsfoto-olmo-vd-akker
Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Tilburg University

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Project

Preregistration and the ‘failed study’

The goal of my project is to improve (psychological) science by attempting to assess, prevent, and correct for biases due to (1) the erroneous interpretation of statistical results and (2) the tendency to value significant results more than nonsignificant results (i.e. publication bias). I will try and reach this goal by:

  • Surveying psychological researchers’ views on registered reports and developing ways to improve researchers’ implementation of registered reports.
  • Surveying psychological researchers on their interpretations of papers with multiple (non)significant results and developing ways to improve the accuracy of those interpretations.
  • Surveying psychological researchers on their interpretations of non-significant results and developing ways to improve the accuracy of those interpretations.
  • Surveying psychological researchers on their interpretations of meta-analytic results and developing ways to improve the accuracy of those interpretations.

Supervisors
Prof. dr. J.M. Wicherts, Prof. dr, M.A.L.M. van Assen, Dr. M. Bakker

Financed by
ERC

Period
1 September 2017-31 August 2021