APA style is the formal writing style that is endorsed by the APA (American Psychological Association). It’s got lots of rules (e.g., within a parenthetical citation, use an ampersand (&), but outside ...

Note: Many of these ideas are from an unpublished paper by Daryl Bem on writing psychology articles. "I learned to use three particularly valuable practices to teach writing. "First, by talking about ...

When it comes to reading academic research reports in the behavioral sciences, I'm no different than anyone else. I often find myself thinking "what is the point?" Reading academic papers is not ...

Every year, psychologists publish a staggering amount of research—it’s impossible to read it all. Still, I gave it a shot—and here are the six papers I found most fascinating. “Estimating the ...

Critical comments on recent Communications Psychology papers may be, after peer review, published online as Matters Arising usually alongside a Reply from the criticized Communications Psychology ...

Researchers have created an automated software package that extracts and checks statistics from psychology research papers — and it has confirmed that the literature contains plenty of errors. The ...