06/01/2026
Social science has a replication problem — a new massive study found that only half of published findings hold up when researchers try to repeat them and many that made it into textbooks
It didn’t start with a paper. It started with a classroom. I was teaching a unit on classic social psychology — the foundational studies that most of us in the field absorbed as canonical truth. Milgram’s obedience experiments. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Baumeister’s work on eg...
