Personality Psychology Podcast #59 Open Science with Simine Vazire
Feb 18, 2026
Simine Vazire, Professor of Psychology, Ethics and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne and open science advocate, discusses the rise of transparency in research. She walks through why openness became urgent, the difference between transparency and public access, the limits of what should be open, resistance from established scientists, and how reformers organized to change norms.
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Open Science As Transparency
- Open science in psychology emphasizes transparency of the research process: sharing data, code, and materials.
- Openness aims to allow others to reproduce methods and participate equitably across regions and institutions.
Data Hoarding Before Reform
- Before 2010 many researchers refused data requests and hoarded datasets even after publishing.
- Simine Vazire recalls routinely saying no and finding the idea of sharing data to check results almost ridiculous.
What Sparked The Reform
- Key triggers for change included fraud cases, the Daryl Bem ESP paper, and the False-Positive Psychology paper.
- Those events exposed how common flexible practices and p-hacking could produce apparently convincing but spurious results.