**Module Description**
Scholars in the field disagree on whether there is a replication "crisis" or not, and what, if anything, should be done about it. This module will expose students to some contrasting perspectives on the replication crisis.
**Learning Objectives**
Understand and interpret evidence for and against a reproducibility crisis; develop understanding of the role of replication in science.
**Prerequisite Knowledge**
Basic understanding of psychology as a science (undergraduate level).
Basic understanding of frequentist statistical methods (e.g., confidence intervals, p-values).
**Readings**
*Discussion 1: Exploratory or Confirmatory Research?*
1. Finkel, E. J., Eastwick, P. W., & Reis, H. T. (2017). [Replicability and other features of high-quality science: Toward a balanced and empirical approach][1]. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology*, *113*, 244-253.
2. LeBel, E. P., Berger, D., Campbell, L., & Loving, T. J. (in press). [Falsifiability is not optional][2]. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology*
*Discussion 2: Direct or Conceptual Replications?*
3. Simons, D. J. (2014). [The value of direct replications][3]. *Perspectives on Psychological Science*, *9*, 76-80.
4. Crandall, C. S., Sherman, J. W. (2016). [On the scientific superiority of conceptual replications for scientific progress][4]. *Journal of Experimental Social Psychology*, *66*, 93-99.
*Discussion 3: What Do Failed Replications Mean?*
5. Mitchell, J. (2014). [On the evidentiary emptiness of failed replications.][5]
6. Neuroskeptic (2014). [On "On the emptiness of failed replications"][6]
**Further Readings**
Iso-Ahola, S. E. (2017). [Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist?][7] Frontiers in Psychology, 8.
Heino, M. T. J., Fried, E. I., L (2017). [Commentary: Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist?][8] Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 879.
Chambers, C. (2017) *[The 7 deadly sins of psychology: A manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice][9]*. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Schmidt, S. (2009). [Shall we really do it again? The powerful concept of replication is neglected in the social sciences][3], *Review of General Psychology, 13*, 90-100.
**Demonstrations**
[tbd]
**Assignments**
[tbd]
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28714730
[2]: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dv94b/download?format=pdf
[3]: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691613514755
[4]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115300020
[5]: http://jasonmitchell.fas.harvard.edu/Papers/Mitchell_failed_science_2014.pdf
[6]: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2014/07/07/emptiness-failed-replications/#.WX33FtM19dI
[7]: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00879
[8]: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01004Journale-changed/
[9]: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10970.html
