How to Make a Sern for Psychology in the Real World

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The initial enthusiasm ran out during this process. There was a lot of back and forth. It's really hard to invite people to invite others to look for flaws in your own work. A pattern of human response where initial enthusiasm gives way to debate an argument only once the data are in hand is kind of a really elegant demonstration of some of the problems.

A decade ago, psychologists realized much of their science was fatally flawed, calling untold numbers of studies into question. Now, some young psychologists are trying to rebuild the foundations of their field. Can they succeed?

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