Felix Schönbrodt's website

"Large-scale replication projects of the last years (e.g., ManyLabs I, II, and III, Reproducibility Project: Psychology) showed that the 'replication crisis' in psychology is more than just hot air: According to recent estimates, ~60% of current psychological research is not replicableI will not go into details here about 'What counts as a replication?'. The 60% number certainly can be debated on many grounds, but the take-home-message is: It's devastating.. This spurred a lot of developments, such as the TOP guidelines, which define transparency and openness criteria for scientific publications. The field is thinking about how we can ensure that we generate more actual knowledge and less false positives, or in the words of John Ioannidis: How to make more published research true. In order to fathom potential consequences for our own department of psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, our department’s administration unanimously decided to establish an Open Science Committee (OSC). The committee’s mission and goals include ..."