Three strong moves to improve research and replications alike

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Publication date 2018
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e130
Volume | Issue number 41
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  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract We suggest three additional improvements to replication practices. First, original research should include concrete checks on validity, encouraged by editorial standards. Second, the reasons for replicating a particular study should be more transparent and balance systematic positive reasons with selective negative ones. Third, methodological validity should also be factored into evaluating replications, with methodologically inconclusive replications not counted as non-replications.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Commentary to: Zwaan, R.A., Etz, A., Lucas, R.E., & Donnellan, M.B. (2018) Making replication mainstream. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 41, e120.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X18000651
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