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

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. 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 BS from California Polytechnic State University in 1995, and his MS, MPhil, and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

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

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'' dedicated to the publication of preregistered replications.

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

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from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their work on implicit bias.

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