In 2015, Brian Nosek's lab attempted to replicate 100 studies from three psychology journals and was unable to reproduce a large portion of the original findings.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by the peer-reviewed Science paper (Open Science Collaboration 2015), University of Virginia press release, and APA Monitor coverage. Multiple independent, high-quality sources corroborate the details. [tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Leaning into the replication crisis: Why you should consider conducting replication research (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aac4716 (corroboration)
- https://as.virginia.edu/news/massive-collaboration-testing-reproducibility-psychology-studies-publishes-findings (corroboration)