Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Gelman, A., Brown, N.J.L. (2024). How Statistical Challenges and Misreadings of the Literature Combine to Produce Unreplicable Science : An Example From Psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 7 (4).
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Wilkinson, J., Heal, C., Antoniou, G.A., Flemyng, E., Avenell, A., et al. (2024). A survey of experts to identify methods to detect problematic studies : stage 1 of the INveStigating ProblEmatic Clinical Trials in Systematic Reviews project. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 175.
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Thornton, J.G., Brown, N. (2024). Biopsychosocial Approaches to Treat Female Chronic Pelvic Pain. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Wilkinson, J., Heal, C., Antoniou, G.A., Flemyng, E., Alfirevic, Z., et al. (2024). Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-SR) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials in systematic reviews of health interventions. BMJ Open. 14 (3).
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Crüwell, S., Apthorp, D., Baker, B.J., Colling, L., Elson, M., et al. (2023). What’s in a Badge? : A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science. Psychological Science. 34 (4). 512-522.
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Brown, N., Van Rongen, J.B., Van De Velde, J., Williams, M. (2021). A Reproduction of the Results of Onyike et al. (2003). Meta-Psychology. 5.
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Brown, N., Rohrer, J.M. (2020). Easy as (Happiness) Pie? : A Critical Evaluation of a Popular Model of the Determinants of Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies. 21 (4). 1285-1301.
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Friedman, H.L., Macdonald, D.A., Brown, N., Coyne, J.C. (2020). Extraordinary claims require compelling evidence : Concerns about "loving-kindness meditation slows biological aging in novices". Psychoneuroendocrinology. 111.
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Nickerson, C.A., Brown, N. (2019). Simpson's Paradox is suppression, but Lord's Paradox is neither : clarification of and correction to Tu, Gunnell, and Gilthorpe (2008). Emerging Themes in Epidemiology. 16 (1).
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Scheel, A.M., Ritchie, S.J., Brown, N., Jacques, S.L. (2018). Methodological problems in a study of fetal visual perception. Current Biology. 28 (10). R594-R596.
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Brown, N., Coyne, J.C. (2018). Does Twitter language reliably predict heart disease? : A commentary on Eichstaedt et al. (2015a). PeerJ. 6.
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Friedman, H.L., Brown, N. (2018). Implications of Debunking the "Critical Positivity Ratio" for Humanistic Psychology : Introduction to Special Issue. Journal of humanistic psychology. 58 (3). 239-261.
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Brown, N., Coyne, J.C. (2017). Emodiversity : Robust Predictor of Outcomes or Statistical Artifact?. Journal of experimental psychology. General. 146 (9). 1372-1378.
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Brown, N., Heathers, J.A.J. (2017). The GRIM Test : A Simple Technique Detects Numerous Anomalies in the Reporting of Results in Psychology. Social Psychology and Personality Science. 8 (4). 363-369.
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Brown, N., Albers, C.J., Ritchie, S.J. (2017). Contesting the evidence for limited human lifespan. Nature. 546 (7660). E6-E7.
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Nickerson, C.A., Brown, N. (2016). Overstating the effect of mindfulness on motivated perception : Comment on Adair and Fredrickson (2015). Personality and Individual Differences. 88. 225-229.
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Brown, N., Nickerson, C.A. (2016). Reanalysis of Vedhara et al. 's (2015) study of personality and gene expression. Personality and Individual Differences. 91. 133-137.
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Brown, N., Macdonald, D.A., Samanta, M.P., Friedman, H.L., Coyne, J.C. (2016). More Questions than Answers : Continued Critical Reanalysis of Fredrickson et al.'s Studies of Genomics and Well-Being. PLOS ONE. 11 (6).
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Heathers, J.A.J., Brown, N., Coyne, J.C., Friedman, H.L. (2015). The Elusory Upward Spiral : A Reanalysis of Kok et al. (2013). Psychological Science. 26 (7). 1140-1143.
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Brown, N., Wong, P.T.P. (2015). Questionable Measures Are Pretty Meaningless. American Psychologist. 70 (6). 571-573.
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Brown, N., Macdonald, D.A., Samanta, M.P., Friedman, H.L., Coyne, J.C. (2014). A critical reanalysis of the relationship between genomics and well-being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111 (35). 12705-12709.
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Brown, N., Sokal, A.D., Friedman, H.L. (2014). The Persistence of Wishful Thinking. American Psychologist. 69 (6). 629-632.
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Brown, N., Sokal, A.D., Friedman, H.L. (2014). Positive Psychology and Romantic Scientism. American Psychologist. 69 (6). 636-637.
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Brown, N., Sokal, A.D., Friedman, H.L. (2013). The Complex Dynamics of Wishful Thinking The Critical Positivity Ratio. American Psychologist. 68 (9). 801-813.
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Collection (editor) (Refereed)
- Friedman, H.L., Brown, N. (2018). Special issue : Implications of Debunking the "Critical Positivity Ratio" for Humanistic Psychology. Sage Publications.
Article in journal (Other academic)
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Fillon, A.A., Larigaldie, N., Brown, N.J.L. (2025). Commentary on "Consumed by Creed". Aggressive Behavior. 51 (1).
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Brown, N. (2024). Fixing science means an end to gaming the system. PLoS biology. 22 (9).
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Ferguson, C., Brown, N. (2024). Editorial : Retractions and their discontents. Current Psychology.
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Schulz, R., Barnett, A., Bernard, R., Brown, N., Byrne, J.A., et al. (2022). Is the future of peer review automated?. BMC Research Notes. 15 (1).
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Lawrence, J.M., Meyerowitz-Katz, G., Heathers, J.A.J., Brown, N., Sheldrick, K.A. (2021). The lesson of ivermectin : Meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable. Nature Medicine. 27. 1853-1854.
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