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28 - Reproducibility in Clinical Psychology

from Part VII - General Analytic Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

By
Christopher J. Hopwood  and
Simine Vazire
Edited by
Aidan G. C. Wright  and
Michael N. Hallquist
Aidan G. C. Wright
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Michael N. Hallquist
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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Summary

Recent developments in psychology and related disciplines have highlighted common research practices that fail to lead to reliable and reproducible effects. In clinical psychology, the use of such practices has had negative consequences for public health. This chapter reviews the foundations of the scientific method, describes the origins and impacts of the reproducibility problem in that context, and makes recommendations for generating reproducible findings in clinical psychology.

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reproducibilityopen science methodsclinical psychologyscientific methodquestionable research practicesmetascience
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The Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods in Clinical Psychology , pp. 371 - 382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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