Young researchers want to be legitimate and they know that refusing to show data and making suspect conclusions from student surveys is not the right path. It's a painful transition, the field will lose credibility before it gains it back, because it requires insiders to call out those in their own field, but in the end it will be much stronger.
While this was about 3 trends, a much larger one has to occur along with them. I mentioned that journals like splashy claims, and lacking real data has only been a minor problem in getting published, but faculty and tenure jobs are determined by splashy results and media coverage and academics in all fields, not just psychology, seem to prefer it that way. Until tenure jobs are granted based in solid science rather than publications and media, serious researchers will have a difficult time getting into positions of authority.
But, given these trends already occurring, 2014 may be the year that psychologists look back to and recall as the time when they put sociology behind and embraced the rigors of science.
You can read more, from Chris Chambers at The Guardian.
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