US defence research: Signs of doubt

Do Academics Doubt Their Own Research?

When do experts doubt or question their own previously published research and why? An online survey was designed and distributed across academic staff and postgraduate research students at different universities in Great Britain. Respondents (n = 202 244) identified the likelihoods of six different (quasi) hypothetical occurrences causing them to doubt or question work they have published in pe...

Perspective - Making Doubt Generative: Rethinking the Role of Doubt in the Research Process

In this paper, we want to shift the attention of our scholarly community to the living condition of doubt and its underappreciated significance for the theorizing process. Drawing on Peirce’s notion of abduction, we articulate the relationship between doubt and belief in the everyday imaginative work central to theorizing, and establish the role played by doubt as abduction’s engine in these ef...

The Research Defence Society

us a set of short essays which has been published by the society. They are primarily intended to educate the general public on the importance of the medical research which involves the employment of live animals for experiment, but incidentally they are of great interest to medical men, and they are also very instructive. One is from the pen of Sir Leonard Rogers; it is of such interest to read...

Publications of the Research Defence Society

In Defence of Effect-Centric Research

For correspondence regarding this manuscript, please contact Prof Tim Hollins, School of Psychology, Plymouth University, Plymouth. PL4 8AA, U.K, or email [email protected]. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published version of this work (the version of record) is published in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 43-46. 10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.10.005. T...