The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA)
Overview
The Psychological Science Accelerator is a globally distributed network of psychological science laboratories representing 82 countries on all six populated continents, that coordinates data collection for democratically selected studies.
PSA's mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalize-able evidence in psychological science, reducing the distance between truth about human behavior and mental processes and our current understanding. This challenge cannot be adequately met by a single researcher or small team. Instead, PSA is attempting to meet this challenge with a distributed laboratory network that is ongoing (as opposed to time or task limited), diverse (both in terms of human subjects and participating researchers), and inclusive (They welcome ideas, contributions, study proposals, or other input from anyone in the field of psychology).
