The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol 52(2), Jun 2024, 121-125; doi:10.1037/hum0000313
Psychology didn’t acknowledge it had a “problem replicating its results” until the dawn of the twenty-first century. It wasn’t until the second decade of this new century that anything like a “cure for psychology’s replication crisis” appeared. Science is improving—but its pace is measured in decades, centuries, and sometimes millennia. Science is not the only voice in the scrum of knowledge claims. Some offer common sense as a competitor to the results of science. Similarly, the track record for replicating the findings in psychology can only be described as abysmal. If common sense weren’t itself so uncommon, one would be obligated to take its challenge to science more seriously. Finally, religions, economics, and politics have lately been seen as competitors to science for the hearts and minds of humans. Even in domains where science ought to be the go-to source of wisdom religious beliefs and political affiliations seem to be more potent influences. The movement of science is forward, unlike competitors for our attention like common sense, economic sense, political sense, and religious beliefs. The direction of their evolution has still to be ascertained. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)