From selecting the right statistical test to reporting results in APA style, mastering research methods is essential for psychology students and professionals. Tools like JASP make analysis more ...

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ~ Ernest Rutherford Many psychology students (and readers of Psychology Today) hate statistics, p < .05. During my ...

"In this universe effect follows cause. I've complained about it, but. . ." -- House (Laurie), pre-sponding to D. Bem "The more extraordinary the event, the greater the need for it to be supported by ...

LeBron James has broken Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of most career points scored by a professional basketball player. James' career statistics serve as a prime example of the interplay between sports ...

New research suggests that efforts to advocate improved statistical practices in psychological research may be paying off. New research published in the March issue of Psychological Science suggests ...

Researchers have created an automated software package that extracts and checks statistics from psychology research papers — and it has confirmed that the literature contains plenty of errors. The ...

A psychology major covers a lot of ground, so it is useful for many different fields. You learn about topics as diverse as neuroscience and social psychology, statistics and art therapy. A bachelor’s ...

A few years ago, I caused considerable weeping and gnashing of teeth among psychologists for a piece I wrote explaining why psychology isn't science. It was predicated upon a lengthier argument, which ...