Decentralized Unequivocality in Psychological Science

The constructs used to study the human psychology have many definitions and corresponding instructions for eliciting and coding qualitative data pertaining to constructs' content and for measuring the constructs. This plethora of definitions and instructions necessitates unequivocal reference to specific definitions and instructions in empirical and secondary research. This package implements a human- and machine-readable standard for specifying construct definitions and instructions for measurement and qualitative research based on 'YAML'. This standard facilitates systematic unequivocal reference to specific construct definitions and corresponding instructions in a decentralized manner (i.e. without requiring central curation; Peters (2020) ).

psyverse 📦

psyverse: Decentralized Unequivocality in Psychological Science

The pkgdown website for this project is located at https://psyverse.one.

Preprint

There is a preprint discussing the background of this package in detail. That preprint, “Knowing What We’re Talking About: Facilitating Decentralized, Unequivocal Publication of and Reference to Psychological Construct Definitions and Instructions” is available at https://psyarxiv.com/8tpcv/.

Installation

You can install the released version of psyverse from CRAN with:

install.packages('psyverse');

You can install the development version of psyverse from GitLab with:

remotes::install_gitlab('r-packages/psyverse');

(assuming you have remotes installed; otherwise, install that first using the install.packages function)