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Replication Failures in Social Psychology

A topic within Social Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

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Paper2012

Behavioral Priming: It's All in the Mind, but Whose Mind?

Stéphane Doyen, Olivier Klein, Cora-Lise Pichon & Axel Cleeremans

A double-blind replication of the famous finding that priming with elderly-related words makes people walk more slowly found no such effect once experimenters were kept unaware of the hypothesis, and the effect only reappeared when experimenters believed in it and were not blind.

Psychology · Social Psychology
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Paper2014

Investigating Variation in Replicability

Richard A. Klein et al.

Running 13 classic and contemporary social-psychology effects across 36 independent samples found some replicated reliably and others barely at all, with almost no relationship between an effect's fame and how well it replicated.

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Psychology · Social Psychology
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