Knowledgebase

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Why have a KnowledgeBase for psychology?

• For any/every question you have about psychology, there is someone in the field who knows the answer. We are connecting people with questions and people with answers.
• Psychology is based on the apprenticeship model. We each have acquired unique skills and knowledge over the years through our experiences as researchers, teachers, clinicians, mentors, writers, and etc., -- sharing this knowledge is how science progresses, such as the apprenticeship/mentorship model of learning in graduate school.

How to use the KnowledgeBase?

• If you have a question - Some of the page titles are framed as questions because a wiki is uniquely designed to connect people who have questions with people who have answers. If you have a question, type it into the relevant page and it will appear as a red link (learn more here).
• If you have an answer - If you feel like you have something to share/answer, just click "edit" at the top of the relevant page (learn more here).

For example, a wiki is uniquely suited to:

bringing together experienced viewpoints and opinions allowing users to ask questions of experts pooling how the field as a whole treats different issues sharing common practices/guidelines within community capturing 'experiential' knowledge codifying 'tacit' or 'implicit' knowledge providing a forum of advice from hard-won insights locating new/existing solutions to current problems helping individuals avoid having to 're-invent the wheel' imparting newly developed and up-to-date advances creating an ever-expanding compendium of info/links creating repositories of data/stimuli for collective use sharing concrete tools for doing research/statistics

-- such as lessons learned on the "do's" and "dont's" of running subjects -- such as Ask an Internet Research Question -- such as best journals? or Marginal significance -- such as How your publication record is evaluated -- such as How to apply and write grant applications -- such as Conference – why go?, what to do when there?, etc -- such as How to survive graduate school or Your first year as a professor -- such as What are outliers?, How do I detect outliers? -- such as Links to finding jobs in psychology -- such as newly developed macros for Mediation -- such as Grant Funding -- such as Archives of data and stimuli -- such as Internet Research Tools

Unlike a traditional static website, a wiki offers the ability to pool our collective knowledge because anyone in the field can edit the webpages and add what they know. Now everyone can benefit from the experiences/knowledge of each other.

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