Replication studies, ceiling effects, and the psychology of science

On May 25, I found Erika Salomon’s tweet: https://twitter.com/ecsalomon/status/470599635095285760 The story started when the journal Social Psychology decided to publish successful and failed replication attempts instead of conventional papers and their conclusions for a Replications Special Issue (Volume 45, Number 3 / 2014). It accepted proposals from scientists stating which studies they wanted to try to replicate, and …