Red Team Challenge

by Nicholas A. Coles, Leo Tiokhin, Ruben Arslan, Patrick Forscher, Anne Scheel, & Daniël Lakens All else equal, scientists should trust studies and theories that have been more critically evaluated. The more that a scientific product has been exposed to processes designed to detect flaws, the more that researchers can trust the product (Lakens, 2019; Mayo, 2018). Yet, there are barriers to adopting critical approaches in science. Researchers are susceptible to biases, such as confirmation b