Marcus Robert Munafo
Born (1972-01-23) 23 January 1972 (age 52)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
University of Southampton
Scientific career
FieldsBiological psychology
Health psychology
Tobacco control
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol

Marcus Robert Munafo,[1] surname also written Munafò, (born 23 January 1972)[2] is a British psychologist who has been a professor of biological psychology at the University of Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology since 2010.[3] He became the editor-in-chief of Nicotine & Tobacco Research in 2015.[4]

Education

Munafo received his M.A. with honors from the University of Oxford in 1993, his M.Sc. from the University of Southampton in health psychology in 1995, and his Ph.D. in anxiety and surgery from the University of Southampton in 1999.[5]

Research

Munafo's research focuses on, among other things, the health and psychological effects of tobacco and alcohol use.[3][6] He has also researched scientific reproducibility for much of his career, starting when he was a student and failed to replicate findings he found in the literature.[7] For example, a study he co-authored with Andrew Higginson found that incentivizing academics to produce a small number of highly cited studies also incentivized them to conduct many new, underpowered studies and fewer replication studies.[8]

Recognition

In 2017 Munafo received the Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, an award given annually by the British Psychological Society.[9]

References

  1. ^ Bertamini, Marco; Munafo, Marcus (29 January 2012). "The Perils of 'Bite Size' Science". New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Marcus Munafo, 1972-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "About Professor Marcus Munafo". University of Bristol. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  4. ^ Munafo, M. (2 January 2015). "A New Editor-in-Chief for Nicotine & Tobacco Research". Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 17 (1): 1. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntu222. PMC 4832972. PMID 25556174.
  5. ^ "Marcus Munafo CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  6. ^ Choi, Charles Q. (14 August 2008). "Study: Alcohol Does Make Other People More Attractive". Fox News. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  7. ^ Baker, Monya (25 May 2016). "1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility". Nature. 533 (7604): 452–454. Bibcode:2016Natur.533..452B. doi:10.1038/533452a. PMID 27225100. S2CID 4460617. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  8. ^ Yong, Ed (21 September 2016). "The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science". The Atlantic. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  9. ^ "July: British Psychological Society award". www.bristol.ac.uk. University of Bristol. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2017.

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