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Priya Silverstein. Completed the Doktor (PhD) in Psychology in 2020/11/01 by Lancaster University, Master in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2016/07/01 by Aston University and Bachelor in Psychology with Professional Placement in 2015/07/01 by Aston University. Is Researcher in Universidade de Coimbra. Published 13 articles in journals. Has 1 book(s). Has received 3 awards and/or honors. Works in the area(s) of Social Sciences and Social Sciences with emphasis on Psychology.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Priya Silverstein

Citation names

  • Silverstein, Priya

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5B19-7586-5F38
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0095-339X

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/09/01 - 2020/11/01
Concluded
 Psychology (Doktor (PhD))
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
"Evaluating the Replicability and Specificity of Evidence for Natural Pedagogy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/10/01 - 2016/07/01
Concluded
 Cognitive Neuroscience (Master)
Aston University, United Kingdom
 Distinction
2011/10/01 - 2015/07/01
Concluded
 Psychology with Professional Placement (Bachelor)
Aston University, United Kingdom
 2:1
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/09/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2025/06/30 Postdoc (Research) Ashland University, United States
Ashland University, United States
2021/01/01 - 2023/01/01 Researcher (Research) Center for Open Science, United States
Center for Open Science, United States
2020/12/01 - 2023/01/01 Science and Technology Management Syracuse University, United States
Syracuse University, United States
2019/10/01 - 2020/12/01 Postdoc (Research) University of Surrey, United Kingdom
University of Surrey, United Kingdom
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Lukas Röseler; Lukas Wallrich; Helena Hartmann; Luisa Altegoer; Veronica Boyce; Sarahanne Field; Janik Goltermann; et al. Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies. 2025.
    10.5281/zenodo.17062133
Conference paper
  1. Silverstein, Priya; Westermann, Gert; Parise, Eugenio; Twomey, Katherine. "New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction". Paper presented in 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), Oslo, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/devlrn.2019.8850716
Journal article
  1. Julia Bottesini; Priya Silverstein; Sebastian Karcher; Colin Elman. "Introducing the Journal Editors Discussion Interface". IASSIST Quarterly 49 2 (2025): https://doi.org/10.29173/iq1146.
    10.29173/iq1146
  2. Priya Silverstein; Charlotte R. Pennington; Peter Branney; Daryl B. O'Connor; Emma Lawlor; Emer O'Brien; Dermot Lynott. "A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland". British Journal of Psychology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12700.
    10.1111/bjop.12700
  3. Schreiner, Melanie S.; Zettersten, Martin; Bergmann, Christina; Frank, Michael C.; Fritzsche, Tom; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Hamlin, Kiley; et al. "Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment". Developmental Science 27 6 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13551.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/desc.13551
  4. Priya Silverstein; Colin Elman; Amanda Montoya; Barbara McGillivray; Charlotte R. Pennington; Chase H. Harrison; Crystal N. Steltenpohl; et al. "A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science". Research Integrity and Peer Review (2024): https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5.
    10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5
  5. Priya Silverstein; Christina Bergmann; Moin Syed. "Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue". Infant and Child Development (2024): https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2495.
    10.1002/icd.2495
  6. Puthillam, Arathy; Montilla Doble, Lysander James; Delos Santos, Junix Jerald I.; Elsherif, Mahmoud Medhat; Steltenpohl, Crystal N.; Moreau, David; Pownall, Madeleine; et al. "Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences". Social and Personality Psychology Compass 18 1 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12847.
    Published • 10.1111/spc3.12847
  7. McDougal, Emily; Silverstein, Priya; Treleaven, Oscar; Jerrom, Lewis; Gilligan-Lee, Katie; Gilmore, Camilla; Farran, Emily K.. "Assessing the impact of LEGO® construction training on spatial and mathematical skills". Developmental Science 27 2 (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13432.
    Open access • Published • 10.1111/desc.13432
  8. McDougal, Emily; Silverstein, Priya; Treleaven, Oscar; Jerrom, Lewis; Gilligan-Lee, Katie A.; Gilmore, Camilla; Farran, Emily K.. "Associations and indirect effects between LEGO® construction and mathematics performance". Child Development 94 5 (2023): 1381-1397. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13933.
    Published • 10.1111/cdev.13933
  9. Romani, Cristina; Silverstein, Priya; Ramoo, Dinesh; Olson, Andrew. "Effects of delay, length, and frequency on onset RTs and word durations: Articulatory planning uses flexible units but cannot be prepared". Cognitive Neuropsychology 39 3-4 (2022): 170-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2022.2070425.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/02643294.2022.2070425
  10. Priya Silverstein; Jinzhi Feng; Gert Westermann; Eugenio Parise; Katherine E. Twomey. "Infants Learn to Follow Gaze in Stages: Evidence Confirming a Robotic Prediction". Open Mind (2021): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00049.
    10.1162/opmi_a_00049
  11. Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla; Priya Silverstein; Moin Syed. "Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors". Collabra: Psychology 7 1 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1525%2Fcollabra.18684.
    10.1525/collabra.18684
  12. Marina Bazhydai; Priya Silverstein; Eugenio Parise; Gert Westermann. "Two-year-old children preferentially transmit simple actions but not pedagogically demonstrated actions". Developmental Science (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12941.
    10.1111/desc.12941
  13. Priya Silverstein; Teodora Gliga; Gert Westermann; Eugenio Parise. "Probing communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants: Two replication attempts of Yoon, Johnson and Csibra (2008)". Infant Behavior and Development 55 (2019): 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.infbeh.2019.03.005.
    10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.03.005
Preprint
  1. Silverstein, Priya; PSA JTF3 Error Correction Collaboration. "Mapping and Increasing Error Correction Behaviour in a Culturally Diverse Sample". 2025. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wegc5_v1.
    10.31234/osf.io/wegc5_v1
  2. Psychological Science Accelerator PSA-JTF2: DHF Collaboration; Silverstein, Priya. "(In)Alienable Worth? Cultural Logics of Dignity, Honor, and Face and their Links to Prosociality Across the World". 2024. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9hb8k_v1.
    10.31234/osf.io/9hb8k_v1
  3. PSA JTF1 Moral Experiences Collaboration; Silverstein, Priya. "A Cross-Cultural Study of Everyday Moral Experiences". 2024. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jktnv_v1.
    10.31234/osf.io/jktnv_v1
  4. Tatiana Chakravorti; Sanjana Gautam; Silverstein, Priya; Sarah M. Rajtmajer. "Embracing Transparency: A Study of Open Science Practices Among Early Career HCI Researchers". 2024.
    https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.04286
  5. Conry-Murray, Clare; Silverstein, Priya. "The Role of Values in Psychological Science: Examining Identity-based Inclusivity". 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cskg2.
    10.31234/osf.io/cskg2
  6. SCORE Collaboration; Silverstein, Priya. "Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)". 2021. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/46mnb.
    10.31235/osf.io/46mnb
  7. Farran, Emily Kate; Silverstein, Priya; Ameen, Aminath A.; Misheva, Iliana; Gilmore, Camilla. "Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines (2025 edition)". 2020. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb.
    10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Evaluating the Replicability and Specificity of Evidence for Natural Pedagogy Theory". PhD, 2020. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/148689/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025 Easing into Open Science Experimental Research Design & Responsible Research Practices
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025 Good practices for reproducible, reusable and open research University of Coimbra Summer School in Computational Biology
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025 On Replication Studies
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2025 A Guide to Replication Studies — What are they? (Why) should we do them? And how can we get started? Freiburg Open Science 2025
University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
2025 A Guide to Replication Studies — What are they? (Why) should we do them? And how can we get started? New Tricks in Research Integrity
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2024 Introduction to Preregistration School of Psychology and Counselling
The Open University (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
2024 Open Science and Metascience in Developmental Psychology LuCiD
University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2024 Easing into Open Science Psychology Department
University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)
2024 Benefits and Challenges of Big-Team Science in Psychology Psychology Department
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2024 Benefits and Challenges of Big-Team Science in Psychology RIOTS Durham
Durham University (Durham, United Kingdom)
2023 Planning replicable, reproducible, robust, and generalisable studies Good Scientific Practice Symposium
2023 Getting into research Everything Psych NG
Everything Psych NG
2023 Getting started in open science International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies
Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (Duisburg, Germany)
2022/06/07 The Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI): Building and Fostering Community IASSIST 2022
IASSIST
2022 Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) Open Science and Reproducibility Colloquium Series
Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI) (Mannheim, Germany)
2022 Priya in Wonderland: My open science journey Psychology Department
University of York (York, United Kingdom)
2022 Replication studies: Strengths and challenges Society for Text and Discourse
Society for Text and Discourse
2022 How journal editors hold the power to advance open science Surrey Reproducibility Society
University of Surrey (Guildford, United Kingdom)
2021/12/07 Introducing the Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI) FORCE2021
FORCE
2021 Benefits and challenges of open science in infancy research Development in Motion Conference
2021 Easing into open affective science Society for Affective Science
Society for Affective Science
2021 An introduction to the BayesFactor R package RLadies
University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom)
2020 What do communicative cues mean to babies? Division of Human Communication, Development and Hearing
University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2020 Babies & Bayes Rising Stars Seminar Series
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2020 Replication studies: how do we run them and what do they tell us? (In)credible Research
Berlin University Alliance (Berlin, Germany)
2020 Easing into open science: no time like the present! RIOT Science Club
Kings College London (London, United Kingdom)
2020 Easing into open science: a guide for graduate students and their advisors ReproducibiliTea Leipzig
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany)
2020 An introduction to Gorilla Psychology Department
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2020 How open science fixed my PhD ReproducibiliTea
University of East Anglia (Norwich, United Kingdom)
2020 What to do with null results Surrey Reproducibility Society
University of Surrey (Guildford, United Kingdom)
2019/08/20 New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction 2019 Joint IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob)
ICDL (Oslo, Norway)
2019/06/12 New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction LuCiD conference
LuCiD (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2019/03/07 Theoretical and methodological implications of null results in replication studies International Congress on Psychological Science
ICPS (Paris, France)
2019 The replication crisis: problems and solutions Doing Good: Scientific Practice Under Review
(Leipzig, Germany)
2019 New evidence for learning-based accounts of gaze following: Testing a robotic prediction Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory
Indiana University (Bloomington, United States)
2019 The role of large-scale collaboration in improving replicability and generalisability in hard-to-reach populations Future-Proofing Your Research: Moving Towards Open and Reproducible Research Practices
Lancaster University (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
2019 Open science practices in developmental psychology: a practical introduction & hands-on workshop Lancaster Conference on Infant and Early Child Development
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2018/07/09 Probing communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants LuCiD conference
LuCiD (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
2018/06/30 Probing communication-induced memory biases in preverbal infants: Two replication attempts of Yoon, Johnson and Csibra (2008) International Congress of Infant Studies
ICIS (Philadelphia, United States)
2018/06/14 The Role of Perspective Taking in Communication-Induced Memory Biases in Preverbal Infants Lancaster Perspective-Taking Workshop
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2025/06/20 - Current Meta-Psychology
2025/01/01 - Current British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2044-835X) Wiley
2025/01/01 - Current Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
2025/01/01 - Current Developmental Psychology
2025/01/01 - Current F1000 Research
2025/01/01 - Current Infancy
2025/01/01 - Current Open Mind
2025/01/01 - Current Peer Community in Registered Reports
2025/01/01 - Current Perspectives on Psychological Science
2025/01/01 - Current Royal Society Open Science
2024/04/05 - Current Nature Communications
2024/04/02 - Current Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (2515-2459) Sage
2023/06/14 - Current Infant Behavior and Development
2022/10/10 - Current Clinical Psychology in Europe
2022/02/22 - Current Social and Personality Psychology Compass
2021/02/26 - Current Developmental Science
2020/12/21 - Current Psychology of Women Quarterly
2020/12/10 - Current Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2020/04/16 - Current British Journal of Social Psychology

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/01/01 - Current Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - 2025/12/31 Executive Committee Member and President (2025) for the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
President / Vice-president

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021 - 2023 Emerging From the Pandemic: Play
2022 - 2022 Journal Editors Discussion Interface Workshop Syracuse University
2017 - 2019 Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development Lancaster University
2018 - 2018 Lancaster Psychology Postgraduate Research Conference Lancaster University

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - 2025 The replication crisis in psychology Psychology (Bachelor) Duke University Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, United States
2023/01/01 - 2023/01/01 The replication crisis in psychology Psychology (Bachelor) The Open University, United Kingdom
2021/01/01 - 2021/01/01 Data visualisation Psychology (Bachelor) Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom
2020/01/01 - 2020/01/01 Conducting replications Psychology (Master) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2018 - 2019 Developmental psychology Psychology (Bachelor) Lancaster University, United Kingdom
2018 - 2019 Introduction to psychology experiments Psychology (Bachelor) Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024 - 2024 University of Bradford Open Research Day Open Research Awards Judge
Evaluator
 University of Bradford, United Kingdom

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022 - 2022 ReproducibiliTea Podcast
2020 - 2020 LGBTQ+ STEM Cast
2020 - 2020 University of Salford Child Development Podcast
2019 - 2019 ReproducibiliTea Podcast
2019 - 2019 Branching Out Podcast

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019 - 2019 Masters student advised Jinzhi Feng
Distinctions

Award

2019 Mission Award for improving psychological science in the face of challenge
2016 Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship
2016 Best Student Performance Award (MSc)