The replication crisis is an ongoing methodological crisis in which the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce.
The Reproducibility Project involved replications of 100 previously published psychological experiments and although 97 of the original 100 studies had found statistically significant effects, only 36 of the replications did!
The replication crisis is frequently discussed in relation to both natural and social sciences. One particularly promising response to the replicability crisis has been the emergence of open science practices including pre-registering hypotheses and data analysis plans, openly sharing research materials with other researchers (e.g., to enable attempts at replication), or making data available to other researchers. These initiatives, which have been spearheaded by the Center for Open Science, have led to the development of “Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines” that have since been formally adopted by more than 500 journals and 50 organizations, a list that grows each week.
The workshop
Title: Beyond the replication crisis: why Open Science practices matter and how to employ these in one’s own research.
- Day 1, 27th September - 09.00-12.00: focus on theory
- Day 2, 28th September - 09.00-12.00: focus on practice
Workshop overview:
- Effect sizes and confidence intervals rather than just p values
- Being able to publish null results
- Requiring complete reporting of all methods and participants used in the study
- Ensuring adequate statistical power of studies
- Carrying out and publishing direct replications of previous work in other labs
- Pre-registration and Registered Reports
- Requiring stronger theoretical basis for research (or allowing more honestly exploratory and descriptive research)
About Roger Giner-Sorolla
Professor Roger Giner-Sorolla completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and was awarded his PhD in Social Psychology from New York University in 1996. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia and two year-long contracts, he joined the University of Kent in 2001. He was promoted to Professor in 2013,and has also been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology since 2016.
Roger is an advocate of transparency in scientific reporting and has written several articles and editorials in support of improved reporting guidelines and pre-registration. He has taught Master's statistics and methodology since 2001 at Kent. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
Register to join
Register to join the workshop before 20th September 2023 by following this link.
Note that the workshop is free of charge and catering will be provided both days (this workshop was sponsored by the Inland School of Business and Social Sciences).