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 ...

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 ...

Fast-forward to the present, and social psychology appears to be a field in crisis. Classic studies won’t replicate. Academic superstars keep being accused of research fraud.

As an example, in one of our own fields of research, gifted education—which is likely far less influential than psychology—a recent special issue highlights the incredible power of economists.

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 ...

The field is currently undergoing a painful period of introspection. ... What psychology’s crisis means for the future of science. ... The original 1998 experiment used chocolate chip cookies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Stanford prison experiment is not the only example of canonical psychology research coming under fire. A number of studies –– including the Milgram experiment, which was meant to demonstrate the ...

To be fair, not all psychology research is equally wishy-washy. Some research is far more scientifically rigorous. And the field often yields interesting and important insights.