As journalist Ed Yong has reported, psychologists often goose up the statistical significance of their research to get it published, while
failed replication studies regularly get rejected by psychology journals.
Not exact matches
«They drew an unrepresentative sample of
studies,
failed to ensure that
replications were faithful and then misanalyzed their own data.»
More recently, psychologists have been trying to replicate some classic «priming»
studies (see more here and here on this topic) with mixed results; some
replication attempts have been successful, while others have
failed.