HOW SHOULD SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS REACT IF THERE ARE REPRODUCIBILITY PROBLEMS WITH TWO THIRDS OF STUDIES?.
HOW SHOULD SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGISTS REACT IF THERE ARE REPRODUCIBILITY PROBLEMS WITH TWO THIRDS OF STUDIES?. I have tried to imagine the impact on researchers when a substantial percentage of the published work in their field is called into question. In this conversation on the Edge website with Richard Nisbett, a distinguished social psychologist, Nesbitt says: “In my field there’s the claim by the people who have been doing the replication to find out exactly how bad the problem in social psychology is. They find that two-thirds of the studies don’t replicate. Well, I’m completely baffled by that. I don’t know what it means.”