Cognitive Science 0252 - Replication and Revolution in Psychology

Is all of psychology fake? A prestigious journal publishes evidence that people have psychic powers. A team of researchers show that listening to a Beatles song can make you almost a year and a half younger. Many labs try to replicate 100 psychology studies, and only 40 work. Something is very, very wrong. These events are part of a massive upheaval in the field that has come to be known as the replication crisis. In this advanced course, we will look at the replication crisis and the role of replication in psychological science. We will look at the problems that led to the crisis, proposed solutions, critiques of those solutions, and debates that are still ongoing. We'll consider what this means for classic psychology results (How many of them are fake? How can we tell?) and what this means for the future of the field. Keywords: research methods, cognitive science, statistics

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