Brian Nosek

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Brian Nosek is an American social psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia . At the same time, he is co-founder and managing director of the Center for Open Science located there , which has been committed to transparency, openness and replicability of scientific research since it was founded in 2013 .

Study and Research

After studying at the California Polytechnic State University ( BS in psychology in 1995) and Yale ( MS in Psychology in 1998, M. Phil. In Psychology 1999) Nosek was taking care of Mahazarin Banaji at Yale in 2002 a doctorate . Both before and after completing his doctorate, Nosek received a variety of awards and grants , including a. he was a Junior Fellow of the Max Planck Society .

After stints at Harvard and Stanford , Nosek has been with the University of Virginia since 2002. His main research interests are in the field of experimental psychology , especially in relation to unconscious decision-making processes and cognitive distortion (bias), which earned him the nickname Bias-Buster in 2015 .

The nickname refers to Nosek's study on the replicability ( reliability ) of 100 different psychological experiments published in the journal Science on July 28, 2015 . Nosek and his team found that only 36 experiments delivered significant results - the expected value was 97. Nosek's results were extensively discussed, both within the scientific community and in the feature pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johanna Cohoon: COS | About our mission. In: cos.io. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Brian Nosek - Photos. In: www.projectimplicit.net. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Brian Nosek: BRIAN A.NOSEK - VITA. February 20, 2016, accessed November 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 365 days: Nature's 10 . In: Nature . tape 528 , no. 7583 , December 24, 2015, p. 459-467 , doi : 10.1038 / 528459a ( nature.com [accessed November 24, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Open Science Collaboration: Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science . In: Science . tape 349 , no. 6251 , August 28, 2015, ISSN  0036-8075 , p. aac4716 , doi : 10.1126 / science.aac4716 , PMID 26315443 ( sciencemag.org [accessed November 24, 2016]).
  6. ^ Stefan Schmitt: Studies: Researchers without a referee . In: The time . September 10, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 24, 2016]).
  7. ↑ Ulf von Rauchhaupt: Psychology: Soft knowledge . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 31, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 24, 2016]).
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Failed repetitions: Doubts about psychological experiments . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on November 24, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Sebastian Hermann: Psychology questions itself. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved November 24, 2016 .
  10. ^ Ed Yong: How Reliable Are Psychology Studies? In: The Atlantic . ( theatlantic.com [accessed November 24, 2016]).
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SURNAME Nosek, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century