Replication of Crises: Psychology in Times of Epistemic Upheaval

Replication of Crises: Psychology in Times of Epistemic Upheaval

Veranstalter
Leibniz Center for Science and Society der Leibniz Universität Hannover; Institut für Medizingeschichte; Wissenschaftsforschung der Universität zu Lübeck
Veranstaltungsort
IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck
Ort
Lübeck
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
19.09.2019 - 20.09.2019
Deadline
19.09.2019
Von
Lisa Malich

Psychology might be broken, some skeptics warn (Woolston, 2015). It might even be trapped in a horrible space somewhere between the third and fourth circle of hell (Neuroskeptic, 2012). To say the least, psychology is enduring an age of epistemic upheaval. The name of this hell is “replication crisis”. Having already affected a range of disciplines in the medical and the life sciences, the replication crisis reached psychology in 2011, with a paper on false positive psychology (Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011). Since this time, the crisis has grown (Dominus, 2017). In a replication of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in psychology journals, only thirty-six percent of the results proved replicable (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Many other major psychological findings could not be replicated, especially in social and clinical psychology: from the broadly published effects of ‘power posing’ to some well-known finding on behavioral priming and the famous Marshmallow test.

The reactions within psychology have been vehement but not surprising. Many scientists are calling for more methodological rigor, for stricter statistical approaches that prevent p-hacking, or for the use of a replication-index.

In this workshop, we do not aim to identify new methodological tools to ‘repair’ psychology. Instead, we will place the replication crisis in its scientific, historical and social context. Therefore, we invite psychologists and historians as well as philosophers and sociologists of science to reflect on the epistemic dynamics within the discipline. The workshop will also discuss the effects of this crisis on public debates, on scientific discourses, and on practices of psychological research.

Programm

Thursday, September 19th

10:00 – 10:30 Lisa Malich, Uljana Feest, Cornelius Borck: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session I: Mapping the Replication Crisis

Chair: Cornelius Borck

10:30 – 11:10 Nicole Nelson: Jumping the Species Barrier: Reproducibility Concerns as a Trans-disciplinary Phenomenon

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:10 Ivan Flis: What is The Scientific Literature? Replication Crisis, Psychology’s Reform, and Cumulativeness

12:10 – 12:50 Jill Morawski: Bringing Psychology’s Objects into the Light at a Time of Crisis

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch

Session II: Methodological Issues

Chair: Jonas Obleser

14:00 – 14:40 Marcus Munafo: Scientific Ecosystems and Research Reproducibility

14:40 – 15:20 Morgan Thompson: Can Methodological Triangulation Save Implicit Attitudes from the Replication Crisis?

15:20 – 16:00 Mario Gollwitzer: The Replicability Debate in Psychological Science: Three “Subjective Models” and the Respective Remedies That They Imply

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Session III: The Materiality of Replication

Chair: Lisa Malich

16:30 – 17:10 Eva Barlösius, Uljana Feest & Torsten Wilholt: From Raw Data to Primary Data: Research Practices Tacit Assumptions and Replicability

17:10 – 17:50 Julia Scholz: Agential Realism sees Realization Potential Instead of True Score plus Error

19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday, September 20th

Session IV: Normative Issues

Chair: Uljana Feest

9:30 – 10:10 Maarten Derksen: The Tone Debate: How to be Critical in Science

10:10 – 10:50 Simine Vazire: The Credibility Revolution in Psychology

10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break

Session V: Social and Empirical Issues

Chair: Torsten Wilholt

11:10 – 11:50 Nora Hangel: Scientists’ Accounts Informing Philosophical Analysis about Reliability and Uncertainty: Benefits and Limitations

11:50 – 12:30 Frieder Paulus: Contextualizing Replication in the Organization of the Academic Work Force

12:30 – 13:40 Lunch Break

Session VI: Historical Perspectives on the Replication Crisis

Chair: Eva Barlösius

13:40 – 14:20 Annette Mülberger: Why Replicate? Functions of Replication in Psychology in the 19thand early 20thCenturies

14:20 – 15:00 Sascha Topp: Methods, Margins, Mutiny? David Marc Mantell, Paul Matussek and the Milgram replicate tests in the Max-Planck Society, Germany (1970/1971)

15:00 – 15:40 Wolfgang Maiers: Replication Crisis – just Another Instance of the Replication of Crises in Psychology? Historical Retrospections and Theoretical-Psychological Assessments

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:20 – 16:40 Felicity Callard, Uljana Feest: Commentaries

16:40 – 17:15 Lisa Malich (moderation): Final Discussion

17:15 End of the Workshop

Organizers: Lisa Malich, Eva Barlösius, Cornelius Borck, Uljana Feest, Jonas Obleser, Torsten Wilholt

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imgwf.sekretariat@uni-luebeck.de

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