personality psych back on rise

Question 1

Failure to replicate in social psychology

Answer 1

Most findings that have failed to replicate, or are known to have been p-hacked are social psychology findings demonstrating the power of the situations

Question 2

Social psychology studies have historically tend to

Answer 2

*use small samples

*maximize the apparent difference between two conditions or two situations(rather tahn observe the relations between 2 variables)

*not paying attention to lessons of personality psychology

*personality psychology already equipped to deal with the crisis

Question 3

Personality psychology back on rise

Answer 3

leading personality psychologists gaining fame

*developing better methods to deal with QRPS

*reserachers seeking reliable effects, less likely to be p-hacked, look to trait research

*so far no major trait reserach findings have been targets of failed replication attempts