Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of
psychology at the
University of Virginia, and the co-founder and director of the
Center for Open Science. He also co-founded the
Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) is a professional organization created in response to the replication crisis in social psychology. It was founded at its inaugural meeting that took place June 6-8th, 2016 at Cente ...
and Project Implicit.
He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 2002.
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Education
Nosek received his BS from California Polytechnic State University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata, California or California State Polytechnic Univ ...
in 1995, and his MS, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University in 1998, 1999, and 2002, respectively.
Work
In 2011, Nosek and his collaborators set up the Reproducibility Project The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was a Crowdsourced psychological science, crowdsourced collaboration of 270 contributing authors to repeat 100 published experimental and correlational psychological studies. This project was led by the Center ...
, with the aim of trying to replicate the results of 100 psychological experiments published in respected journals in 2008. In 2015, their results were published in '' Science'', and found that only 36 out of the 100 replications showed statistically significant
In statistical hypothesis testing, a result has statistical significance when it is very unlikely to have occurred given the null hypothesis (simply by chance alone). More precisely, a study's defined significance level, denoted by \alpha, is the p ...
results, compared with 97 of the 100 original experiments. In 2014 Nosek was guest-editor of a special issue of the journal '' Social Psychology'' dedicated to the publication of preregistered replications.
Honors
In 2015, he was named one of "Nature's 10
''Nature'' 10 is an annual listicle of ten "people who mattered" in science, produced by the scientific journal ''Nature''. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad. Reporters and editorial staff at ''Nature'' ...
" by the scientific journal '' Nature''.American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...
for their work on implicit bias.
See also
* Open science
* Metascience
* John Ioannidis
References
External links
The Experiment-experiment
a Planet Money podcast featuring Nosek
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Living people
American social psychologists
University of Virginia faculty
California Polytechnic State University alumni
Yale University alumni
Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science
Year of birth missing (living people)