Badly specified theories are not responsible for the replication crisis in social psychology: Comment on Klein

Theory and Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 540-548

  Trafimow, David ^a   Earp, Brian D ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

auxiliary assumptions; historical examples; replication crisis; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979867321     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: 14617447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354316637136     Document Type: Article

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