Baumeister Roy F, Bushman Brad J, Tice Dianne M
The University of Queensland (Australia).
The Ohio State University (USA).
Span J Psychol. 2023 Apr 11;26:e3. doi: 10.1017/SJP.2023.6.
Social psychology findings have fared poorly in multi-site replication attempts. This article considers and evaluates multiple factors that may contribute to such failures, other than the "crisis" assumption that most of the field's published research is so badly flawed that it should be dismissed wholesale. Low engagement by participants may reduce replicability of some findings (while not affecting certain others). Incentives differ between original researchers and replicators. If multi-site replications are indeed biased toward failure, this may have a damaging effect on the field's ability to build correct theories.
社会心理学研究结果在多地点重复验证尝试中的表现不佳。本文探讨并评估了可能导致此类失败的多个因素，而非那种认为该领域已发表的大多数研究存在严重缺陷以至于应被全盘否定的“危机”假设。参与者参与度低可能会降低某些研究结果的可重复性（而对另一些结果则无影响）。原始研究者和重复验证者所采用的激励措施有所不同。如果多地点重复验证确实倾向于失败，那么这可能会对该领域构建正确理论的能力产生破坏性影响。
