I had the honor to deliver the closing address to the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science on July 9, 2019 in Rotterdam. The following are my prepared remarks. (These remarks are also archived on PsyArXiv.)
Some years ago, not long after people in psychology began talking in earnest about a replication crisis and what to do about it, I was talking with a colleague who has been around the field for longer than I have. He said to me, “Oh, this is all just cyclical. Psychology goes through a bout of self-flagellation every decade or two. It’ll be over soon and nothing will be different.”
I can’t say I blame him. Psychology has had other periods of reform that have fizzled out. One of the more recent ones was the statistical reform effort of the late 20th century – and you should read Fiona Fidler’s history of…
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