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The reliability of published research findings in psychology has been a topic of rising concern. Publication bias, or treating positive findings differently from negative findings, is a contributing factor to this "crisis of confidence," in that it likely inflates the number of false-positive effects in the literature. We demonstrate a Bayesian model averaging approach that takes into account the possibility of publication bias and allows for a better estimate of true underlying effect size. Accounting for the possibility of bias leads to a more conservative interpretation of published studies as well as meta-analyses. We provide mathematical details of the method and examples.

@article{guan_vandekerckhove:2016:publication,
    title   = {{A} {B}ayesian approach to mitigation of publication bias},
    author  = {Guan, Maime and Vandekerckhove, Joachim},
    year    = {2016},
    journal = {Psychonomic Bulletin \& Review},
    volume  = {23},
    pages   = {74--86},
    doi     = {10.3758/s13423-015-0868-6}
}