When RoyFBaumeister and colleagues set out to find out why so few psych studies are replicable, a moment of inspiration made him scrap the research and do it all over. 'To us, it was a bombshell.' Here's what he found out.
Multi-site replications in social psychology are much more successful when they include live social interaction.
Seeking to understand social psychology’s replication brouhaha, two colleagues and I reviewed all the published multi-lab replications in social psychology. We had finished the manuscript, polished it, revised it, and gone through the process of submitting it for journal publication. I was thinking, whew, that was a big job, glad it’s done for now. But then something else occurred to me.
I wondered how much this affected the multi-site replications. So we went back and coded all 36 studies into three categories: A few did have live interactions, even if these were just that the experimenter interacted with the participant throughout the session. There was an intermediate category of computer-mediated or computer-simulated interpersonal interactions.
This is a bigger problem for social psychology than for other fields. The phenomena other areas study depend much less on getting the person responding fully as a social being.
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