TY - GEN N2 - Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution to these and other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects. These projects can focus on novel research questions or replicate prior research in large, diverse samples. The PSA’s mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalizable evidence in psychological science. Here, we describe the background, structure, principles, procedures, benefits, and challenges of the PSA. In contrast to other crowdsourced research networks, the PSA is ongoing (as opposed to time limited), efficient (in that structures and principles are reused for different projects), decentralized, diverse (in both subjects and researchers), and inclusive (of proposals, contributions, and other relevant input from anyone inside or outside the network). The PSA and other approaches to crowdsourced psychological science will advance understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematic examination of its generalizability. AB - Concerns about the veracity of psychological research have been growing. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution to these and other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects. These projects can focus on novel research questions or replicate prior research in large, diverse samples. The PSA’s mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalizable evidence in psychological science. Here, we describe the background, structure, principles, procedures, benefits, and challenges of the PSA. In contrast to other crowdsourced research networks, the PSA is ongoing (as opposed to time limited), efficient (in that structures and principles are reused for different projects), decentralized, diverse (in both subjects and researchers), and inclusive (of proposals, contributions, and other relevant input from anyone inside or outside the network). The PSA and other approaches to crowdsourced psychological science will advance understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematic examination of its generalizability. AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana AD - University of Southern Indiana T1 - The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network DA - 2018-10-1 AU - Moshontz, Hannah AU - Campbell, Lorne AU - Ebersole, Charles R. AU - IJzerman, Hans AU - Urry, Heather L. AU - Forscher, Patrick S. AU - Grahe, Jon E. AU - McCarthy, Randy J. AU - Musser, Erica D. AU - Antfolk, Jan AU - Castille, Christopher M. AU - Evans, Thomas Rhys AU - Fiedler, Susann AU - Flake, Jessica Kay AU - Forero, Diego A. AU - Janssen, Steve M. J. AU - Keene, Justin Robert AU - Protzko, John AU - Aczel, Balazs AU - Álvarez Solas, Sara AU - Ansari, Daniel AU - Awlia, Dana AU - Baskin, Ernest AU - Batres, Carlota AU - Borras-Guevara, Martha Lucia AU - Brick, Cameron AU - Chandel, Priyanka AU - Chatard, Armand AU - Chopik, William J. AU - Clarance, David AU - Coles, Nicholas A. AU - Corker, Katherine S. AU - Dixson, Barnaby James Wyld AU - Dranseika, Vilius AU - Dunham, Yarrow AU - Fox, Nicholas W. AU - Gardiner, Gwendolyn AU - Garrison, S. Mason AU - Gill, Tripat AU - Hahn, Amanda C. AU - Jaeger, Bastian AU - Kačmár, Pavol AU - Kaminski, Gwenaël AU - Kanske, Philipp AU - Kekecs, Zoltan AU - Kline, Melissa AU - Koehn, Monica A. AU - Kujur, Pratibha AU - Levitan, Carmel A. AU - Miller, Jeremy K. AU - Okan, Ceylan AU - Olsen, Jerome AU - Oviedo-Trespalacios, Oscar AU - Özdoğru, Asil Ali AU - Pande, Babita AU - Parganiha, Arti AU - Parveen, Noorshama AU - Pfuhl, Gerit AU - Pradhan, Sraddha AU - Ropovik, Ivan AU - Rule, Nicholas O. AU - Saunders, Blair AU - Schei, Vidar AU - Schmidt, Kathleen AU - Singh, Margaret Messiah AU - Sirota, Miroslav AU - Steltenpohl, Crystal N. AU - Stieger, Stefan AU - Storage, Daniel AU - Sullivan, Gavin Brent AU - Szabelska, Anna AU - Tamnes, Christian K. AU - Vadillo, Miguel A. AU - Valentova, Jaroslava V. AU - Vanpaemel, Wolf AU - Varella, Marco A. C. AU - Vergauwe, Evie AU - Verschoor, Mark AU - Vianello, Michelangelo AU - Voracek, Martin AU - Williams, Glenn P. AU - Wilson, John Paul AU - Zickfeld, Janis H. AU - Arnal, Jack D. AU - Aydin, Burak AU - Chen, Sau-Chin AU - DeBruine, Lisa M. AU - Fernandez, Ana Maria AU - Horstmann, Kai T. AU - Isager, Peder M. AU - Jones, Benedict AU - Kapucu, Aycan AU - Lin, Hause AU - Mensink, Michael C. AU - Navarrete, Gorka AU - Silan, Miguel A. AU - Chartier, Christopher R. L1 - https://library.usi.edu/record/1416658/files/The%20Psychological%20Science%20Accelerator.pdf JF - Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science PB - SAGE Publications LA - eng PY - 2018-10-1 ID - 1416658 L4 - https://library.usi.edu/record/1416658/files/The%20Psychological%20Science%20Accelerator.pdf KW - social sciences::psychology SN - 2515-2459 SN - 2515-2467 TI - The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network Y1 - 2018-10-1 L2 - https://library.usi.edu/record/1416658/files/The%20Psychological%20Science%20Accelerator.pdf LK - https://library.usi.edu/record/1416658/files/The%20Psychological%20Science%20Accelerator.pdf UR - https://library.usi.edu/record/1416658/files/The%20Psychological%20Science%20Accelerator.pdf ER -