ReviewScience advances2018
Experimenter gender and replicability in science.
Review in Science advances, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
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46 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effects of oxytocin administration on fear-potentiated acoustic startle in co-occurring PTSD and alcohol use disorder: A randomized clinical trial.Psychiatry research · 2022Trial
- Randomized cross-over evaluation of investigator gender on pain thresholds in healthy volunteers.German medical science : GMS e-journal · 2021Trial
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- Effects of Oxytocin Administration on Cue-Induced Craving in Co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD: A Within-Participant Randomized Clinical Trial.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Trial
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- Exploring individual biases in BCI research and users: Does gender matter?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Preclinical and translational models for delirium: Recommendations for future research from the NIDUS delirium network.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Review
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Abstract
There is a replication crisis spreading through the annals of scientific inquiry. Although some work has been carried out to uncover the roots of this issue, much remains unanswered. With this in mind, this paper investigates how the gender of the experimenter may affect experimental findings. Clinical trials are regularly carried out without any report of the experimenter's gender and with dubious knowledge of its influence. Consequently, significant biases caused by the experimenter's gender may lead researchers to conclude that therapeutics or other interventions are either overtreating or undertreating a variety of conditions. Bearing this in mind, this policy paper emphasizes the importance of reporting and controlling for experimenter gender in future research. As backdrop, it explores what we know about the role of experimenter gender in influencing laboratory results, suggests possible mechanisms, and suggests future areas of inquiry.
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