David A. Sbarra

David A. Sbarra

@dsbarra.bsky.social

Clinical Psychologist. Professor of Psychology. Editor of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. All views are personal, expressed as a private citizen.

1,329 Followers 205 Following 116 Posts Joined Nov 2023
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Application Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: Psychology Starting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest...

Collabra: Psychology is seeking a new senior editor for the clinical section and new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested in either of these positions and you believe you are qualified, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026! forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

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Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

You might take a tour of some of the papers I mentioned here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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A Practical Guide for Transparency in Psychological Science The credibility of scientific claims depends upon the transparency of the research products upon which they are based (e.g., study protocols, data, materials, and analysis scripts). As psychology navi...

Also: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

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I liked this paper: Knöchel, T. D., Schweizer, K. J., Acar, O. A., Akil, A. M., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Buehler, F., ... & Aczel, B. (2025). Core principles of responsible generative AI usage in research. AI and Ethics, 1-7.

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Under the Open Practices Collection #AMPPS has a lot of papers that might be of interest: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... . You can browse the other collections as well. For very accessible AI ethics, I liked this paper...

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Say more about what you're looking for... lots on data management, the ethics of data sharing, etc. I happen to list Josh and Don's J Psychopathology and Clinical Science commentary that links data sharing with the ethics code. AMPPS has lots on data management

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Can AI Pass Freshman CS? YouTube video by mt_xing

If you're interested in AI and programming, I highly recommend this fun video-- it's an amazing project from a Cornell CS grad student . Also, this class is no joke!

youtu.be/56HJQm5nb0U?...

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APS Editorial Fellowship Program: Call for Applications Deadline: February 6, 2026APS is pleased to announce the application process for the next cohort of the Editorial Fellowship Program (EFP) is now open. This program aims to increase opportunities for ...

This program has grown into quite a terrific opportunity-- I encourage anyone with the interest to apply: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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If you haven’t been inspired by APS in the last few years, give us another look. We want the society to be the leader in rigorous psych science that connects all the parts of the Society together. Hope to see you in Barcelona!!

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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science: Special collections Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Here's the link to our ever-expanding Collections! journals.sagepub.com/collection-i...

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This is a great resource!

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If you wish to submit a Commentary article on this paper, please do so by the March, 2026. To submit a Commentary, please follow our Submission Guidelines: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... . The authors of the target article will reply to the accepted Commentary articles as a set. /end

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AMPPS recently accepted a new paper "Registered Replication Report: Johns, Schmader, & Martens (2005)" on stereotype threat (osf.io/preprints/ps...); full paper is forthcoming on our website). AMPPS is now soliciting Commentary articles on this paper. @psychscience.bsky.social /cont

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Meeting the Bare Minimum: Quality Assessment of Idiographic Temporal Networks Using Power Analysis and Predictive-Accuracy Analysis - Yong Zhang, Jordan Revol, Ginette Lafit, Anja F. Ernst, Josip Razu... The network theory of psychopathology inspired clinicians and researchers to use idiographic networks to study how symptoms of an individual interact over time,...

From my master’s thesis to my first PhD project — excited to share that this work (together with @jordanrvl.bsky.social, @ginettelafit.bsky.social, Anja Franziska Ernst, Josip Razum, Eva Ceulemans, and @bringmannlaura.bsky.social) is now published in AMPPS!

Link: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

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Looking forward to this next week!

During waking hours for people in Europe, Africa, & the Americas.
And the Middle East.
And parts of Asia.
Really almost everywhere except Eastern Asia & Australia/NZ.

Link to register: univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Massive thanks to our Deputy @umpamdk.bsky.social and Associate Editors @rogierk.bsky.social @jkflake.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social & Yasemin Kisbu... and to everyone at @psychscience.bsky.social . @felixthoemmes.bsky.social -- your turn now!

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Taking Stock of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science at the End of the Beginning - David A. Sbarra, 2025

My time as Editor of AMPPS is coming to an end-- here are some parting thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... .

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This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

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4 months ago

Thanks for the great endorsement!

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Sage webinar on Registered Reports (RRs/RRRs)! I'm excited to participate, and if you have any curiosity about writing a RR or reviewing a RR, please consider joining the webinar. Spread the word-- thanks! @psychscience.bsky.social

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I think the container paper is predicated on some knowledge of version control, but to this point, we do have on Git version control paper at AMPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Found this gem of a paper in the AMPPS archives on using containers in psychological science. What's a container, you ask? Read on...

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Also see: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Just when you were getting used to the term preregistration... New paper at AMPPS calling for improved terminology in the field and better alignment with TOP 2025 . journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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<em>Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science</em> Submission Guidelines Updated 4/29/2024Call for Participants: Multilab Registered Replication ReportCall for Papers: Adversarial CollaborationsAMPPS PARTNERS WITH METARESEARCH OPEN REVIEWAMPPS has a new partnership with Me...

If you wish to submit a Commentary on this paper, please do so by the end of December, 2025. To submit a Commentary, please follow our Submission Guidelines: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... . The authors of the target article will reply to the accepted Commentary articles as a set.

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Call for Commentary articles at AMPPS! We recently accepted a "Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal Level Theory" (osf.io/preprints/ps...) and are soliciting Commentary articles on this paper.

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The Arizona Daily Star ran a great story on @uarizona.bsky.social's decision not to sign the compact for academic excellence. I especially loved this quote

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If you do online data collection, this paper is worth checking out! I especially like the access to the codebook, which helps operationalize best practices: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3 Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

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