2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher

Charles R. Ebersole received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Miami University (OH) in 2012. He is now a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Virginia. He primarily studies research practices and meta-science, conducting crowdsourced investigations of factors that influence the replicability of past research. These include the Many Labs 3 and Many Labs 5 projects. He is also the creator of StudySwap, an online platform that encourages researcher collaboration and study replication by providing a place for researchers and labs to share resources like access to samples. Mr. Ebersole has been involved in the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and has given workshops on using transparent research practices.

Other Related Works

Ebersole, C. R., Alaei, R., Atherton, O. E., Bernstein, M. J., Brown, M., Chartier, C. R., … & Rule, N. O. (2017). Observe, hypothesize, test, repeat: Luttrell, Petty and Xu (2017) demonstrate good science. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 184-186.

Ebersole, C. R., Axt, J. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2016). Scientists’ reputations are based on getting it right, not being right. PLoS biology, 14(5), e1002460.

Nosek, B. A., Ebersole, C. R., DeHaven, A. C., & Mellor, D. T. (2017, August 24). The Preregistration Revolution. Retrieved from osf.io/2dxu5