Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This presentation was part of the session "Promoting Research Integrity: 'Best Practices' in Social-Personality Research" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2014 Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. This session addressed current crises in the field, and highlight improvements for strengthening our science while maintaining productivity. (Feb. 15, 2014)
Speaker:
"How to be Rewarded for Staying Clean When Academic Steroids are Available (and Pervasive)?"
Brian Nosek, University of Virginia and Center for Open Science
The currency of science is publishing. Producing novel, positive, and clean results maximizes the likelihood of publishing success because those are the best kind of results. There are multiple ways to produce such results: (1) be a genius, (2) be lucky, (3) be patient, or (4) employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices to manufacture beauty. In a competitive marketplace with minimal accountability, it is hard to resist (4).
This presentation was part of the session "Promoting Research Integrity: 'Best Practices' in Social-Personality Research" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2014 Annual Meeting in Austin, TX. This session addressed current crises in the field, and highlight improvements for strengthening our science while maintaining productivity. (Feb. 15, 2014)
Speaker:
"How to be Rewarded for Staying Clean When Academic Steroids are Available (and Pervasive)?"
Brian Nosek, University of Virginia and Center for Open Science
The currency of science is publishing. Producing novel, positive, and clean results maximizes the likelihood of publishing success because those are the best kind of results. There are multiple ways to produce such results: (1) be a genius, (2) be lucky, (3) be patient, or (4) employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices to manufacture beauty. In a competitive marketplace with minimal accountability, it is hard to resist (4).
