The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network
The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network
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DOI：
10.1177/2515245918797607
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
13.6
通讯作者：
Chartier, Christopher R.
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作者：
Moshontz, Hannah;Campbell, Lorne;Chartier, Christopher R.
人们对心理学研究的准确性的担忧与日俱增。心理科学研究的许多发现都是基于统计能力不足和非代表性样本的研究，或者可能仅限于特定的、不可概括的环境或人群。众包研究是一种大规模合作，其中一个或多个研究项目在多个实验室地点进行，为这些和其他当前的方法学挑战提供了务实的解决方案。心理科学加速器 (PSA) 是一个分布式实验室网络，旨在支持和支持众包研究项目。这些项目可以专注于新颖的研究问题或在大型、多样化的样本中复制先前的研究。 PSA 的使命是加速心理科学领域可靠且普遍证据的积累。在这里，我们描述了 PSA 的背景、结构、原则、程序、好处和挑战。与其他众包研究网络相比，PSA 是持续的（而不是有时间限制的）、高效的（因为结构和原则可在不同的项目中重复使用）、去中心化、多样化（在主题和研究人员方面）和包容性（来自网络内外任何人的提案、贡献和其他相关输入）。 PSA 和其他众包心理科学方法将通过对其普遍性进行严格的研究和系统检验来促进对心理过程和行为的理解。
Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowd-sourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution to these and other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowd-sourced research projects. These projects can focus on novel research questions or replicate prior research in large, diverse samples. The PSA's mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalizable evidence in psychological science. Here, we describe the background, structure, principles, procedures, benefits, and challenges of the PSA. In contrast to other crowdsourced research networks, the PSA is ongoing (as opposed to time limited), efficient (in that structures and principles are reused for different projects), decentralized, diverse (in both subjects and researchers), and inclusive (of proposals, contributions, and other relevant input from anyone inside or outside the network). The PSA and other approaches to crowdsourced psychological science will advance understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematic examination of its generalizability.