Yes / In recent years, there has been a focus in social psychology on efforts to improve the robustness, rigour, transparency and openness of psychological research. This has led to a plethora of new tools, practices and initiatives that each aim to combat questionable research practices and improve the credibility of social psychological scholarship. However, the majority of these efforts derive from quantitative, deductive, hypothesis-testing methodologies, and there has been a notable lack of in-depth exploration about what the tools, practices and values may mean for research that uses qualitative methodologies. Here, we introduce a Special Section of BJSP: Open Science, Qualitative Methods and Social Psychology: Possibilities and Tensions. The authors critically discuss a range of issues, including authorship, data sharing and broader research practices. Taken together, these papers urge the discipline to carefully consider the ontological, epistemological and methodological underpinnings of efforts to improve psychological science, and advocate for a critical appreciation of how mainstream open science discourse may (or may not) be compatible with the goals of qualitative research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/19394 |
| Date | 30 March 2023 |
| Creators | Pownall, M., Talbot, C.V., Kilby, L., Branney, Peter |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Editorial, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2023 The British Psychological Society. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pownall M, Talbot CV, Kilby L et al (2023) Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology. Accepted for Publication., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12628. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving., Unspecified |
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