Lavelle, Jane Suilin (2023) Growth from uncertainty: understanding the replication 'crisis' in infant psychology. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Psychology is a discipline that has a high number of failed replications, which has been characterised as a ‘crisis’ on the assumption that failed replications are indicative of
untrustworthy research. This paper uses Chang’s concept of epistemic iteration to show how a research programme can advance epistemic goals despite many failed replications.
It illustrates this through analysing an on-going large-scale replication attempt of Southgate’s 2007 work exploring infants’ understanding of false beliefs. It concludes that
epistemic iteration offers a way of understanding the value of replications — both failed and successful — that contradicts the narrative centred around distrust.
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Keywords: | replication crisis, epistemic iteration, false belief, reproducibility, scientific progress | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Developmental Psychology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Theory Change |
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Depositing User: | Dr Jane Suilin Lavelle | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2023 01:33 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2023 01:33 | ||||||
Item ID: | 22679 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Developmental Psychology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism General Issues > Theory Change |
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Date: | 2023 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22679 |
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