Research outputs
Find details of key publications from our team and collaborators.
Journal articles
- Open science
Dienes, Z. (forthcoming). The inner workings of Registered Reports. In A. L. Nichols & J. E. Edlund (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Research Methods and Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yhp2a
Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M. M., Guay, S., Shahim, O. N., Govaart, G. H., Norris, E., O’Mahony, A., Parker, A. J., Todorovic, A., Pennington, C. R., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Lazić, A., Robertson, O., Middleton, S. L., Valentini, B., McCuaig, J., Baker, B. J., Collins, E., … Aczel, B. (2022). A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 312–318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01269-4
Stewart, S. R., Pennington, C. R., Silva, G. F. A., Ballou, N., Butler, J., Dienes, Z., Jay, C., Rossit, S., & Samara, A. (2021). Reforms to improve reproducibility and quality must be coordinated across the research ecosystem: The view from the UKRN Local Network Leads. BMC Research Notes, 15(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05949-w
Colling, L. J., & Szűcs, D. (2021). Statistical inference and the replication crisis. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 12, 121–147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0421-4 - Statistical methods
Sladekova, M., Webb, L. E. A., & Field, A. P. (in-press). Estimating the change in meta-analytic effect size estimates after the application of publication bias adjustment methods. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000470
Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A. J., Argamon, S. E., Baguley, T., Becker, R. B., Benning, S. D., Bradford, D. E., Buchanan, E. M., Caldwell, A. R., Calster, B. V., Carlsson, R., Chen, S.-C., Chung, B., Colling, L. J., Collins, G. S., Crook, Z., … Zwaan, R. A. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 168–171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x
Benjamin, D. J., Berger, J. O., Johannesson, M., Nosek, B. A., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Berk, R., Bollen, K. A., Brembs, B., Brown, L., Camerer, C., Cesarini, D., Chambers, C. D., Clyde, M., Cook, T. D., Boeck, P. D., Dienes, Z., Dreber, A., Easwaran, K., Efferson, C., … Johnson, V. E. (2018). Redefine statistical significance. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 6–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z
Field, A. P., & Wilcox, R. R. (2017). Robust statistical methods: A primer for clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology researchers. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 98, 19–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.05.013
- Bayesian methods
Dienes, Z. (2021). How to use and report Bayesian hypothesis tests. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practise, 8(1), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bua5n
Dienes, Z. (2021). Obtaining evidence for no effect. Collbra: Psychology, 7(1), Article 28202. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.28202
Dienes, Z. (2019). How do I know what my theory predicts? Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(4), 364–377. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919876960
Dienes, Z., & Mclatchie, N. (2018). Four reasons to prefer Bayesian analyses over significance testing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(1), 207–218. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1266-z
Dienes, Z. (2014). Using Bayes to get the most out of non-significant results. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00781
Dienes, Z. (2011). Bayesian versus orthodox statistics: Which side are you on? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(3), 274–290. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611406920
- Multi-Lab studies
Colling, L. J., Szűcs, D., Marco, D. D., Cipora, K., Ulrich, R., Nuerk, H.-C., Soltanlou, M., Bryce, D., Chen, S.-C., Schroeder, P. A., Henare, D. T., Chrystall, C. K., Corballis, P. M., Ansari, D., Goffin, C., Sokolowski, H. M., Hancock, P. J. B., Millen, A. E., Langton, S. R. H., … McShane, B. B. (2020). Registered replication report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences, 3(2), 143–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920903079
Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716
South East of England Replication in Psychology Syndicate (SERPS)
The School of Psychology is part of the South East of England Replication in Psychology Syndicate (SERPS) along with University of Reading, University of Essex, Royal Holloway (University of London) and University of Surrey. The purpose of SERPs is to foster multi-site collaborations between the five universities.
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Publications as consultant statisticians
- Journal articles
Schweizer, S., Satpute, A. B., Atzil, S., Field, A. P., Hitchcock, C., Black, M., Feldman Barrett, L., & Dalgleish, T. (2019). The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 145(6), 566–609. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000193
Whale, R., Fialho, R., Field, A. P., Campbell, G., Tibble, J., Harrison, N. A., & Rolt, M. (2019). Factor analyses differentiate clinical phenotypes of idiopathic and interferon-alpha-induced depression. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 80, 519–524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2019.04.035
Ward, J., Field, A. P., & Chin, T. (2019). A meta-analysis of memory ability in synaesthesia. Memory, 27(9), 1299–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1646771
Cartwright-Hatton, S., Ewing, D., Dash, S., Hughes, Z., Thompson, E. J., Hazell, C., Field, A. P., & Startup, H. (2018). Preventing family transmission of anxiety: Feasibility RCT of a brief intervention for parents. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57(3), 351–366. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12177
Ayers, S., Crawley, R., Button, S., Thornton, A., Field, A. P., Flood, C., Lee, S., Eagle, A., Bradley, R., Moore, D., Gyte, G., & Smith, H. (2018). Evaluation of expressive writing for postpartum health: a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-018-9970-3
Stuijfzand, S., Creswell, C., Field, A. P., Pearcey, S., & Dodd, H. (2018). Is anxiety associated with negative interpretations of ambiguity in children and adolescents? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12822
Crawley, R., Ayers, S., Button, S., Thornton, A., Field, A. P., Lee, S., Eagle, A., Bradley, R., Moore, D., Gyte, G., & Smith, H. (2018). Feasibility and acceptability of expressive writing with postpartum women: a randomised controlled trial. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 18, 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1703-7
Flack, Z. M., Field, A. P., & Horst, J. S. (2018). The effects of shared storybook reading on word learning: A meta-analysis. Developmental Psychology, 54(7), 1334–1346. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000512
Brown, T. A., & Field, A. P. (2017). Best practice guidelines for modern statistical methods in applied clinical research: Introduction to the Special Section. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 98, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.06.008
Other key publications
- Textbooks
Field, A. P. (2022). An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications.
Field, A. P. (2017). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.
Field, A. P. (2012). Discovering Statistics Using R. SAGE Publications.
Dienes, Z. (2008). Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference. Bloomsbury Publishing.