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Is social psychological research really so negatively biased?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Aiden P. Gregg*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Englandhttp://www.soton.ac.uk/~crsi/centresinformation.htmhttp://www.soton.ac.uk/~crsi/centresinformation.htm
Constantine Sedikides*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Englandhttp://www.soton.ac.uk/~crsi/centresinformation.htmhttp://www.soton.ac.uk/~crsi/centresinformation.htm
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Abstract:

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Krueger & Funder (K&F) overstate the defects of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), and with it the magnitude of negativity bias within social psychology. We argue that replication matters more than NHST, that the pitfalls of NHST are not always or necessarily realized, and that not all biases are harmless offshoots of adaptive mental abilities.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004