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Trafimow D, Earp BD. Badly specified theories are not responsible for the replication crisis in social psychology: Comment on Klein. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/0959354316637136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
Klein (2014) argues that the replication crisis in social psychology is due—at least in large part—to the tendency of psychological theories to be ill-specified. We disagree. First, we use both historical and contemporary examples to show that high-quality replication is possible even in the absence of a well-specified theory; and, second, we argue that it is typically auxiliary assumptions, rather than theories themselves, that need to be more clearly specified in order to understand the implications of a given replication effort.
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Stepanova EV, Strube MJ, Clote LE, Limes D. Pictorial Race Activation in Priming Measures. BASIC AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2016.1201484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Everett JAC, Earp BD. A tragedy of the (academic) commons: interpreting the replication crisis in psychology as a social dilemma for early-career researchers. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1152. [PMID: 26300832 PMCID: PMC4527093 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 07/23/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jim A C Everett
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Oxford, UK ; Department of Philosophy, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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- Department of Philosophy, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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