ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Public Trust in Psychology in Light of the Replication Crisis
- Tobias Wingen
University of Cologne - Jana Berkessel
University of Mannheim - Birte Englich
University of Cologne
Abstract
How do lay people react to the replication crisis? Five preregistered studies (N = 1451) found that low replicability damages public trust in psychology. Crucially, attempts to repair this trust through information about open science (Study 3), hidden moderators (Study 4), or improved replicability (Study 5) showed to be ineffective.
Reproducibility and Replicability
