Social Psychology, Vol 55(6), 2024, 281-284; doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000565
It occurred to me that the field of social psychology, as a whole, had grown timid, overly cautious, and complacent. This is, undoubtedly, a side-effect of the replication crisis in social psychology and calls for tentativeness when applying our work to the public sphere. Therefore, as the new Editor-in-Chief of Social Psychology, I am setting a clear and ambitious agenda: this journal will serve as a battleground for ideas that ignite change and spark good trouble. We can be rigorous and daring at the same time. I encourage researchers to take risks and submit daring work to Social Psychology, even when they fail or might fail in the future. Yes, it is necessary to do the hard-work that tests the rigor, replicability, and validity of our measures and procedures. However, even the most well-powered, transparent, preregistered, replicated, and confirmatory research, with the most complex and impressive models, is meaningless if it does not answer important questions about human psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)