Evaluating Psychological Research
Learn to separate genuine psychological insights from headline hype. Discover how to inspect study methods, spot replication red flags, and accurately gauge real-world effects.
Like Duolingo, but for Evaluating Psychological Research. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Auditing the Claims and Determining Scientific Robustness. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Evaluating Psychological Research
- WEIRD samples skew heavily toward Western, educated, rich university undergrads.
- Cross-cultural studies show non-industrialized societies often resist this illusion.
- College undergraduates represent less than twelve percent of the global population.
- A tiny p-value only confirms an observed difference is unlikely due to chance alone.
- Massive sample sizes can turn negligible behavioral differences statistically significant.
- Cohen's d quantifies the standardized practical magnitude of a psychological shift.
- Social desirability bias pushes participants to report idealized moral actions.
- Introspective limits prevent participants from accurately reporting non-conscious motives.
- Stated attitudes on surveys routinely fail to predict actual real-time behavior.
- Lab proxy games feature artificial stakes and explicit demand characteristics.
- Ecological validity breaks down when laboratory games strip out rich social context.
- Isolated positive results are vulnerable to publication bias and fluke outcomes.
- Direct multi-lab replication checks whether independent protocols yield the effect.
- Systematic meta-analysis aggregates multi-site data to estimate true effect size.
- Cross-sectional surveys cannot determine whether journaling calms mood or calmer students choose to journal.
- Third variables like free time or low baseline stress can drive both journaling habits and low anxiety.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When researchers tested the famous Müller-Lyer visual illusion in non-industrialized societies, what happened?
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Where Evaluating Psychological Research takes you
- 1
Auditing the Claims
- Screening Findings for Common Traps
- Interrogating Experimental Controls
- 2
Determining Scientific Robustness
- Checking Replication and Methodological Rigor
- Applying Psychological Evidence Responsibly
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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