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New Replicability Project Bolsters Research Correlating Personality Traits and Life Outcomes
Ample research has identified links between personality traits and dozens of life outcomes, ranging from marital stability to vocational success. But how reliable are those findings? Results of a replication project, results of which will
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Replications Don’t Hinge on Sample and Setting Differences, Multilab Project Shows
When a replication study fails to reproduce previous findings, researchers often point to differences in the study populations as an explanation. The results of a massive international project, which appear in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, challenge that claim.
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Children’s Verbal Memory to Be Investigated in Replication Project
The editors of AMPPS invite researchers to apply to participate in this Registered Replication Report.
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better
In 2012, psychologists Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan published a paper in the journal Science reporting a series of experiments that suggested engaging in analytical thinking could reduce someone’s religious belief. It sounded vaguely plausible
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Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations
A large-scale effort to replicate results in psychology research has rebuffed claims that failures to reproduce social-science findings might be down to differences in study populations. The drive recruited labs around the world to try
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Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of previously published experiments from its field, to see if it can get the same results.
