Criminologists lament that their voices are seldom heard in the rooms of policy. Although all interest groups suffer similar distress, we criminologists do have a point. Much criminal justice policy is what some of my colleagues call “quackery” (Latessa, Cullen, and Gendreau, 2002); it is devoid of not only evidence but also of logic. Some approaches to crime and justice receive little policy s...

The authors have distinguished between two broad types of research: studies dedicated to development and testing of theoretical explanations and studies seeking to generalize observed effects to settings of interest. Winer (1999 [this issue]) argues that the goal of making research conducted by marketing academics more relevant can be served by coupling theory studies with effects studies. Outc...

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If we know that certain ways of making decisions are associated with real-life success, is this then how we should decide? In this paper the relationship between normative and descriptive theories of decision-making is examined. First, it is shown that the history of the decision sciences ensures that it is impossible to separate descriptive theories from normative ones. Second, recent psycholo...

Experiments have become a popular method to study altruism and cooperation in laboratory and, more recently, in field settings. However, few studies have examined whether behavior in experiments tells us anything about behavior in the “real world.” To investigate the external validity of several common experimental economics games, we compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane ...

and discussion sections: information related to external validity reported in the abstract (i.e., country where the trial took place, setting, number of centers, number of eligiblei.e., country where the trial took place, setting, number of centers, number of eligible patients, number of patients randomized, length of recruitment, length of follow-up, and data on care providers) and whether the...

Due to the diculties in replicating and scaling up qualitative studies, such studies are rarely veri€ed. Accordingly, in this paper, we leverage the advantages of crowdsourcing (low costs, fast speed, scalable workforce) to replicate and scale-up one state-of-the-art qualitative study. Œat qualitative study explored 20 GitHub pull requests to learn factors that inƒuence the fate of pull reques...

Numerous studies exist examining how college students use Facebook and how this affects aspects of their college experience; however, all of these studies have relied on self-report measures of Facebook use. Research in other areas of human behavior has shown that self-report measures are substantially inaccurate when compared to actual behaviors. This study provides the first test of the crite...