Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of
psychology
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at the
University of Virginia
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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.
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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 ''Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
'', 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 ''Social Psychology
Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the ...
'' 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 (journal), Nature''. Nominees have made a significant impact in science either for good or for bad. Reporters and editorial s ...
" by the scientific journal ''Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
''. In 2018, Nosek was awarded, alongside Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Anthony Galt Greenwald is a social psychologist and, since 1986, professor of psychology at University of Washington.
In 1959, Greenwald received a B.A. from Yale University. In 1961, he received a M.A. from Harvard University, and in 1963, he ...
, with a Golden Goose Award
The Golden Goose Award is a United States award in recognition of scientists whose federally funded basic research has led to innovations or inventions with significant impact on humanity or society. Created by Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee ...
from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their work on implicit bias.
See also
* Open science
* Metascience
Metascience (also known as meta-research) is the use of scientific methodology to study science itself. Metascience seeks to increase the quality of scientific research while reducing inefficiency. It is also known as "''research on research''" ...
* John Ioannidis
John P. A. Ioannidis (; el, Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, ; born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and cl ...
References
External links
The Experiment-experiment
a Planet Money
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History
The podcast was created by Alex Blumberg and Adam Davids ...
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)