University of California, Los Angeles.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2017 Sep;12(5):762-771. doi: 10.1177/1745691617707314.
By continuing to focus on the necessity for replication, psychological science misses an important and all-pervasive psychological phenomenon: the impact of social and cultural change on behavior. Or put otherwise, our discipline misinterprets failure to replicate behavioral results if we do not consider that social and cultural change can produce systematic shifts in behavior. Data on the connection between social change and behavioral change point to a new role for "replication": not to show that results can be duplicated, but to reveal behavioral effects of sociodemographic and cultural change in the intervening years between original and replicated procedure, whether those be surveys, standardized behavioral procedures, or intelligence tests.
通过继续关注复制的必要性，心理学错失了一个重要且普遍存在的心理现象：社会和文化变化对行为的影响。换句话说，如果我们不考虑社会和文化变化会导致行为的系统性变化，那么我们的学科就会误解未能复制行为结果。关于社会变化与行为变化之间联系的数据为“复制”提出了一个新的角色：不是为了证明结果可以复制，而是为了揭示原始和复制程序之间的社会人口统计学和文化变化对行为的影响，无论这些变化是调查、标准化行为程序还是智力测试。
