Replication, preregistration, and open science – what’s all the fuss about?

Replication, preregistration, and open science – what’s all the fuss about?

October 22, 2025 · 51 min · Season 6 · Episode 8

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This episode discusses the replication crisis in psychology and its implications for research integrity.

The so-called “replication crisis” engulfed psychology over the last 10 years, with numerous failures to reproduce canonical studies from the biggest names in the discipline like Dweck’s growth mindset, Baumeister’s willpower as a muscle, and around half of Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Interrogation of this failure of replicate led to discoveries of p-hacking, publication bias, a huge disconnect between the theories psychologists were supposedly testing and the cute little studies they ...

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