Evgeniou, Kaiti (2022) What meta - science is missing: Perspectives on the replication crisis, science, and controversies behind direct and conceptual replications. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The sequence of replication failures in a number of scientific disciplines gave emergence to the idea that there is a replication crisis. Social psychology has the lowest reproducibility rates within psychological science. Some scientists question the credibility of knowledge in social psychology by promoting the importance of identical replications, namely direct replications. Other scientists support that identical replication is not adequate in social psychology, pursuing the importance of conceptual replications. This dichotomy seems to exist due mainly to two opposing ontological conceptions. The one views psychological objects as static and constant effects, observed under controlled conditions. The other views them as complex, fragile and dynamic, requiring multiple methods to understand them. Hence, instead of generalizing the idea of a crisis, it is essential to understand how those controversies exist and what can science learn from them. This study is pilot, qualitative and descriptive, investigating how social psychologists perceive the different forms of replication and the reasoning behind their beliefs. With thematic analysis, this study investigated 94 responses by social psychologists who work as researchers in the Netherlands. Most responses supported conceptual replications as more applicable in social psychology than direct replications. They reasoned that conceptual replications consider the context- sensitivity, dynamism, and complexity that constructs in social psychology obtain. Furthermore, they explained that using multiple methodologies to understand psychological constructs can embrace theory development, validity and generalizability of findings. Lastly, participants advocated that direct replications deplete the information needed to understand psychological objects because of the singularity they hold upon their conditions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Hoek, J.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2023 07:00 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 07:00 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2718 |
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