The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes.
Max KorbmacherFlávio AzevedoCharlotte R PenningtonHelena HartmannMadeleine PownallKathleen E SchmidtMahmoud ElsherifNate BreznauOlly RobertsonTamara KalandadzeShijun YuBradley J BakerAoife O'MahonyJørgen Ø-S OlsnesJohn J ShawBiljana GjoneskaYuki YamadaJan P RöerJennifer MurphyShilaan AlzahawiSandra GrinschglCatia M OliveiraTobias WingenSiu Kit YeungMeng LiuLaura M KönigNihan Albayrak-AydemirOscar LecuonaLeticia MicheliThomas EvansPublished in: Communications psychology (2023)
The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called 'replication crisis'. In this Perspective, we reframe this 'crisis' through the lens of a credibility revolution, focusing on positive structural, procedural and community-driven changes. Second, we outline a path to expand ongoing advances and improvements. The credibility revolution has been an impetus to several substantive changes which will have a positive, long-term impact on our research environment.