Learning From Mistakes: Teaching Students About Errata, Corrigenda, and Nonretraction Corrections to the Research Literature

摘要

Publication guidelines indicate that when substantive errors in research are noted after the publication of a research report, a correction (also known as an erratum or corrigendum) should be issued. Although such corrections are published with some regularity in psychology and in other scientific fields, the issue of corrections to the scientific literature is seldom addressed in the kinds of research methods textbooks often used in undergraduate psychology courses. This article briefly reviews the existing literature on the frequency and effectiveness of scientific correction generally and extends that literature to the domain of psychology specifically, with an emphasis on what undergraduate students should know.