FriSem

Date
Fri March 10th 2023, 3:15 - 4:30pm
Location
Department of Psychology, Building 420, room 050

Veronica Boyce, Ph.D. Student in Psychology, Stanford University, (Stanford Doctoral Dissertation Advisors  Asst. Prof. Judith Degen, Assoc. Prof. Noah Goodman and Prof. Michael Frank)

Title: Correlates of replicability: evidence from PSYCH251 class projects

Replicability is a key feature of cumulative science. However, large-scale replication projects have found that the overall replication rate of experimental findings in psychology is around 40-60%. Given this low replication rate, it would be useful to be able to predict which studies are replicable, so we can focus our resources building on studies that are likely to replicate.

Here, we add to the available collection of large-scale replications with a dataset consisting of 176 experimental replications done by students as part of PSYCH251. We also examine which features of experimental designs predict replication success in this dataset.