Peer Reveiw

Question 1

The colleague check that

Answer 1

The report is written in agreed format

There’s a good research design

Enough detail to be replicable

It’s of a high enough quality

Question 2

✅

Answer 2

Ensures it’s at a highest standard

Does not enter public until checked

Allows dissemination across community

Ensures it’s unbiased / objective

Question 3

❎

Answer 3

May never be truly objective

Might guess who’s it is

Might delay or prevent publication

Some may not understand work

Supportive research tends to get published more

Question 4

What’s a peer review

Answer 4

Before publication research papers are subjected to independent scrutiny by another psychologist who are in a similar field consider it in terms of its validity, significance and originality