Address all parts of the prompt. Use research and empirical evidence to support all points. Be concise and clear. Use active voice instead of passive wherever possible. passive: The experiment was ...

According to a study published in the latest issue of Science, only 39 out of 100 psychology papers could be repeated with similar results. A team led by Brian Nosek from the Center for Open Science ...

This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This is an excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan’s book “Uncertainty in Games.” Unless you have lived in a Skinner box from an early ...

When it comes to reading academic research reports in the behavioral sciences, I'm no different than anyone else. I often find myself thinking "what is the point?" Reading academic papers is not ...

I taught my first psychology class in 1994—and I almost always include some kind of paper assignment in each of my classes. Quick math says that I have probably read nearly 2,000 student papers. I ...

An American Psychological Association journal’s outgoing editor in chief has requested and received retractions of eight papers he co-authored in the publication. All the retraction notices in the ...

Psychology has the ability to tell us about the inner workings of human behavior and what motivates us, but recently, its validity has been called into question. According to a study published in the ...