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Meta-analysis leads to a shift of emphasis from single studies to multiple studies. It emphasizes the practical importance of the effect size instead of the statistical significance of individual studies. This shift in thinking has been termed "meta-analytic thinking". The results of a meta-analysis are often shown in a forest plot.
Theory & Psychology is a forum for theoretical and meta-theoretical analysis in Psychology. The journal publishes papers which focus on the emergent themes of contemporary psychological debate. The journal publishes papers which focus on the emergent themes of contemporary psychological debate.
Metapsychology (Greek: meta 'beyond, transcending', and ψυχολογία 'psychology') [2] is that aspect of a psychological theory that discusses the terms that are essential to it, but leaves aside or transcends the phenomena that the theory deals with.
The Psychological Bulletin is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes evaluative and integrative research reviews and interpretations of issues in psychology, including both qualitative (narrative) and/or quantitative (meta-analytic) aspects. [1] The editor-in-chief is Blair T. Johnson.
Reporting Research in Psychology: How to Meet the New Standards for Journal Articles (2010) ISBN 9781433809163 Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis: A Sep-by-step Approach (2015) ISBN 9781483331157 Ethical Choices in Research: Managing data, writing reports, and publishing results, in the social sciences (2016) ISBN 9781433821684
A wide range of research methods are used in psychology. These methods vary by the sources from which information is obtained, how that information is sampled, and the types of instruments that are used in data collection. Methods also vary by whether they collect qualitative data, quantitative data or both.
In terms of representing topics within the cognitive sciences, a 2005 meta-analysis demonstrated that the journal primarily publishes work in psychology, with a small proportion of publications in linguistics and neuroscience. [3]
In 1966, an early meta-research paper examined the statistical methods of 295 papers published in ten high-profile medical journals. [3] It found that "in almost 73% of the reports read ... conclusions were drawn when the justification for these conclusions was invalid." Meta-research in the following decades found many methodological flaws ...