Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
About the speaker
Tim Rakow is a Reader in Psychology at King’s College London. He has over 20 years’ experience of supervising research and teaching research methods to psychology students. Tim uses a range of research strategies to examine human judgment and decision making. He has published over 50 research articles in more than 25 different academic journals, spanning the disciplines of psychology, health, medicine, decision science and behavioral economics. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Thinking & Reasoning and co-author of the 1st EMEA Edition of the Cengage textbook Research Methods for the Behavioural Sciences.
About the talk
Adversarial collaboration is an approach to resolving scientific disputes, wherein researchers who have different positions on the issue at hand collaborate with the aim of making progress on their disputed research question. Adversarial collaboration sits squarely within the open science framework because it puts a premium on transparency in hypothesis specification, study design, data analysis, study interpretation and reporting – and supplies a framework that can encourage rigour in these components of the research process. This talk will use examples of published adversarial collaborations to give an overview of the approach, outlining some of its key features, and identifying potential benefits of the approach.
This talk will include insights from a forthcoming chapter:
Rakow, T. (forthcoming). Adversarial collaboration. In O’Donohue, W. T., Masuda, A. & Lilienfeld, S. O. (Eds.). Questionable Research Practices: Designing, Conducting, and Reporting Sound Research in Clinical Psychology. Springer Publication.
About RIOT Science Club
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science.
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: osf.io/8y7h2/. You can also subscribe to our mailing list, to receive regular information on upcoming talks and workshops, any local events and vacancies for positions in open and reproducible research.
You can also find us on Twitter @riotscienceclub.
If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
About the speaker
Tim Rakow is a Reader in Psychology at King’s College London. He has over 20 years’ experience of supervising research and teaching research methods to psychology students. Tim uses a range of research strategies to examine human judgment and decision making. He has published over 50 research articles in more than 25 different academic journals, spanning the disciplines of psychology, health, medicine, decision science and behavioral economics. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Thinking & Reasoning and co-author of the 1st EMEA Edition of the Cengage textbook Research Methods for the Behavioural Sciences.
About the talk
Adversarial collaboration is an approach to resolving scientific disputes, wherein researchers who have different positions on the issue at hand collaborate with the aim of making progress on their disputed research question. Adversarial collaboration sits squarely within the open science framework because it puts a premium on transparency in hypothesis specification, study design, data analysis, study interpretation and reporting – and supplies a framework that can encourage rigour in these components of the research process. This talk will use examples of published adversarial collaborations to give an overview of the approach, outlining some of its key features, and identifying potential benefits of the approach.
This talk will include insights from a forthcoming chapter:
Rakow, T. (forthcoming). Adversarial collaboration. In O’Donohue, W. T., Masuda, A. & Lilienfeld, S. O. (Eds.). Questionable Research Practices: Designing, Conducting, and Reporting Sound Research in Clinical Psychology. Springer Publication.
About RIOT Science Club
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science.
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: osf.io/8y7h2/. You can also subscribe to our mailing list, to receive regular information on upcoming talks and workshops, any local events and vacancies for positions in open and reproducible research.
You can also find us on Twitter @riotscienceclub.
If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
