I wrote this letter to the black goat podcast … will update here if I hear back from them …
Dear goaters (is this a good way to address the three of you?
This was my first contribution to a Registered Replication Report (RRR). Being one of 40 participating labs was an interesting exercise – it might seem straightforward to run the same study in different labs, but we learned that such small things as ü, ä and ö can generate a huge amount of problems and work (read this if you are into these kind of things).
One of the root causes of where we are (as a science) in psychology and many other disciplines in terms of reproducibility of key (and other) results could not be better summed up than by the man himself Daryl Bem (2002):
The replication crisis has many interesting effects on how people (and scientists) think about Psychology (and, of course, other fields) … Here is a nice summary of effects that are hard to replicate.
This syllabus of an (obviously) awesome class has a ton of good reads:
Everything is fucked: The syllabus
by Sanjay Srivastava
I would have two additions:
A multi lab replication project on ego-depletion (Hagger & Chatzisarantis, 2016) And the [response](doi: 10.