The perils of 'bite-size' science
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 16:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st-century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics, and culturefor the worse, many say. Now an article in January's Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, aims a critique at a similar trend in psychological research. The authors, psychologists Marco Bertamini of the University of Liverpool and Marcus Munafò of the University of Bristol, call it "bite-size science"papers based on one or a few studies and small samples.