Scientific Reform and Replication Crisis in Psychology

Abstract

In the 2010s, psychological science was engulfed in a discussion about the replicability of already published studies. These discussions soon morphed into a multi-layered criticism of quantitative methods and methodologies in psychology, especially when it comes to inferential statistics. The replicability problems were described as a symptom of a deep crisis of commonly applied research designs and statistical analyses, in combination with the dysfunction of scientific publishing and scholarly communication. In this paper, an overview of the replication crisis and reform movement in psychology in Croatia will be provided for the first time.