Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University.
J Comp Psychol. 2021 Aug;135(3):291-301. doi: 10.1037/com0000291.
Unlike some other areas of psychology that have experienced a "reproducibility crisis," the extent to which research findings in comparative psychology are reliable is only just beginning to come under the spotlight. I outline what is known about where we as a field stand in terms of the reliability of our findings and highlight some characteristic features of our research that give may cause for concern, focusing primarily on experimental comparative cognition. I then discuss ways that we as individual researchers and a wider community can take steps to improve our current practices (and in some cases already are) and highlight the crucial role institutions and gatekeepers have to play in effecting change. By tackling potential issues head on, the field of comparative psychology can have more confidence that our research findings and the resultant claims we make about animal behavior and cognition are reliable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
与心理学的其他一些领域经历了“可重复性危机”不同，比较心理学研究结果的可靠性程度才刚刚开始受到关注。我概述了我们在研究发现的可靠性方面所处的位置，并强调了我们研究中可能引起关注的一些特征，主要集中在实验比较认知上。然后，我讨论了我们作为个体研究人员和更广泛的研究社区可以采取哪些步骤来改进我们目前的实践（在某些情况下已经在做），并强调了机构和把关人在推动变革方面所发挥的关键作用。通过直面潜在问题，比较心理学领域可以更加确信我们的研究结果以及我们对动物行为和认知的相关结论是可靠的。
