In the experiment, we identified 12 pairs of soccer rivalries (Arsenal vs Tottenham in the UK, AC Milan vs Inter in Italy, etc.). We randomly assigned teams in each pair to either the Team A or ...

2. Overconfidence deriving from research designs: When we talk about the replication crisis in psychology, we’re mostly talking about lab experiments and surveys. Either way, you get clean ...

A second difference is that some social science field experiments look more like large-scale public health interventions than laboratory experiments in medicine or psychology, rendering the ...

There is a crisis in psychology. It’s not those rare cases of outright fraud, as when the social psychologist Diedrik Stapel simply made up the results of dozens of experiments and published ...

Psychology, though, when faced with an empirical result that violates the laws of physics, can’t find any principled reason to reject the result and instead spends a lot of time squabbling about ...