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What have we learned? What can we learn?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

Fritz Strack  and
Wolfgang Stroebe
Fritz Strack
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg 97070, Germany. [email protected]://www.i2.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Wolfgang Stroebe
Affiliation:
Department of Social Psychology, University of Groningen, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands. [email protected]://stroebe.socialpsychology.org/
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Abstract

We advocate that replications should be an integral part of the scientific discourse and provide insights about the conditions under which an effect occurs. By themselves, mere nonreplications are not informative about the “truth” of an effect. As a consequence, the mechanistic continuation of multilab replications should be replaced by diagnostic studies providing insights about the underlying causes and mechanisms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e151
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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