CREP (Collaborative Replications and Education Project)

  • Level: Master

    Language: English

    Short Description: The Collaborative Replications and Education Project (CREP; http://osf.io/wfc6u) is a framework for undergraduate students to participate in the production of high-quality direct replications. Staffed by volunteers and incorporated into coursework, CREP helps produce high-quality data using existing resources and provides structure for research projects from conceptualization to dissemination. Most notably, student research generated through CREP make an impact: data from these projects are available for meta-analyses, some of which are published with student authors.

    A list of papers to select for replication can be found here: https://osf.io/flaue/wiki/home/

    Some suitable topics might be:

    - Griskevicius, V., Tybur, J. M., & Van den Bergh, B. (2010). Going green to be seen: Status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 392-404. Study 1

    - Kool, W., McGuire, J. T., Rosen, Z. B., & Botvinick, M. M. (2010). Decision making and the avoidance of cognitive demand. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 139, 665. Study 3

    Skills required:

    - interest in research and open science & reproducibility

    - interest in the topic of choice

    - ability to work precisely and efficiently / ability to follow guidelines faithfully

    - some basic statistics skills (χ2-test, t-test, ANOVA and similar in SPSS or R)

    Goals:

    As part of the thesis, the student will:

    - do a literature review

    - submit a preregistration

    - conduct an experiment

    - do a statistical analysis

    - write a report according to scientific standards

    If the project is completed successfully, the student will be invited to contribute to the meta-analysis manuscript.

    References:

    Munafò, M. R., Nosek, B. A., Bishop, D. V. M., Button, K. S., Chambers, C. D., Sert, N. P. du, Simonsohn, U., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Ware, J. J., & Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2017). A manifesto for reproducible science. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0021

    Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716–aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

     Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632

     Wagenmakers, E.-J., Borsboom, D., Kievit, R. A., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2016). A skeptical eye on psi. In Extrasensory perception: Support, skepticism, and science (1st ed., pp. 153–176). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rogier_Kievit2/publication/291337813_A_Skeptical_Eye_on_Ps i/links/56a0a88208ae4af5254b3881.pdf