Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of

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at the

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, and the co-founder and director of the

Center for Open Science The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the o ...

. He also co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Project Implicit. He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 2002.

Education

Nosek received his B.S. from

California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo or Cal Poly) is a public university in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, - Cites the location of the university and shows that the university ...

in 1995, and his M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1998, 1999, and 2002, respectively.

Work

In 2011, Nosek and his collaborators set up the Reproducibility Project, 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 ''

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'', and found that only 36 out of the 100 replications showed

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results, compared with 97 of the 100 original experiments. In 2014 Nosek was guest-editor of a special issue of the journal ''

Social Psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

'' dedicated to the publication of preregistered replications. Brian Nosek for Center for Open Science

Honors

In 2015, he was named one of "

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" by the scientific journal ''

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''. In 2018, Nosek was awarded, alongside Mahzarin Banaji and

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, with a Golden Goose Award from the

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for their work on implicit bias.

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External links

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podcast featuring Nosek {{DEFAULTSORT:Nosek, Brian 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)

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