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Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science

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Replication—an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice—is gaining appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research progress. If findings are not replicable, then prediction and theory development are stifled. If findings are replicable, then interrogation of their meaning and validity can advance knowledge. Assessing replicability can be productive for generating and testing hypotheses by actively confronting current understandings to identify weaknesses and spur innovation. For psychology, the 2010s might be characterized as a decade of active confrontation. Systematic and multi-site replication projects assessed current understandings and observed surprising failures to replicate many published findings. Replication efforts highlighted sociocultural challenges such as disincentives to conduct replications and a tendency to frame replication as a personal attack rather than a healthy scientific practice, and they raised awareness that replication contributes to self-correction. Nevertheless, innovation in doing and understanding replication and its cousins, reproducibility and robustness, has positioned psychology to improve research practices and accelerate progress.

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Authors
Nosek, B. A., Hardwicke, T. E., Moshontz, H., Allard, A., Corker, K. S., Dreber, A., Fidler, F., Hilgard, J., Kline Struhl, M., Nuijten, M. B., Rohrer, J. M., Romero, F., Scheel, A. M., Scherer, L. D., Schönbrodt, F. D., & Vazire, S.
Affiliations
  • Center for Open Science (US)
  • University of Amsterdam (NL)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • Grand Valley State University (US)
  • Stockholm School of Economics (SE)
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • Illinois State University (US)
  • Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA
  • Tilburg University (NL)
  • Leipzig University (DE)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
  • University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Venue
Annual Review of Psychology
Published
2022-01-04
Volume
73
Issue
1
Pages
719-748
ISSN
  • 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2085
OpenAlex
W3161588210
Cited by
770
References
253
Citations by year
2026: 109 · 2025: 192 · 2024: 180 · 2023: 177 · 2022: 92
FWCI
19.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
  • Arnold Ventures
  • European Commission (HORIZON2020, 841188)
  • University of Melbourne
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • Templeton World Charity Foundation
  • Templeton Religion Trust
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Australian Research Council (FT150100297)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
Keywords
replication, replicability, reproducibility, robustness, research practices, replication study, research incentives
MeSH terms
Humans, Research Design, Reproducibility of Results

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