We talk a lot on this podcast about the fascinating research conducted by psychological scientists.

Today we're going to do something a little different.

We're going to explore how that research gets done and how it might be done better.

Over the past decade, there has been discussion of what critics have called psychology's reproducibility crisis.

The fact that some published research results, including some classic

findings in psychology, don't always hold up when other researchers reproduce those experiments.

Now psychologists are leading a movement to address that problem by changing the way that

research studies get conducted and published. So what exactly is reproducibility and why is it important?

If the goal of science is to increase our understanding of the world, then is the way science is conducted and scrutinized right now helping researchers achieve that goal.

And how much can we, as readers and consumers of science information and news, trust published research results?

Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association

that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life.

I'm Kim Mills.

My guest today is Dr. Brian Nosek, the founder and executive director of the Center for Open

Science in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The Center for Open Science is a nonprofitesville, Virginia. The Center for Open

Science is a nonprofit organization that aims to increase the reproducibility of research by

building tools to encourage scientists to share data and conduct their work more transparently. Dr.

Nosek is also a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Much of his own lab research has focused on

implicit cognition or thoughts and feelings that occur outside of our conscious control. Broadly, he's

interested in the gap between values and practices, between what people intend to do and what they

actually do. Thank you for joining us today, Dr. Nosek. I'm delighted to be here today. Thank you for having me.

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