peer review

• Peer review

  When someone in the same field of study as you looks at and makes comments (reviews) your piece of research.
• peers

  People that are in the same field of study/research as the researcher.
• 3 aims of a peer review

  1. to help allocate funding/see if funding should be given.

  2. to validate the relevance and quality of the research.

  3. to suggest improvements/amendments that can be made. Also to see if the research is appropriate.
• how psychological research is published/in what form

  -conferences

  -academic journals

  -textbooks
• evaluations


  strength(s):

  - Anonymity. This means that the reviews have an increased likelihood of being genuine - the reviewers are more likely to give their true opinion. But, some reviewers can use this negatively and can be unjust and extremely harsh.

  
  

  weakness(es):

  - Publication bias. Not all research will get published if it does not aline with what the publishers want to put out. Good/ significant research can face the file drawer problem.

  
  

  - Burying groundbreaking research. If someone is reviewing a piece of research that conflicts theirs they are likely to be harsh and say that the research is not worthy of being published/ is inappropriate.