Why I care about replication studies
Daniel Lakens (noreply@blogger.com)
In 2009 I attended a European Social Cognition Network meeting in Poland. I only remember one talk from that meeting: A short presentation in a nearly empty room. The presenter was a young PhD student - Stephane Doyen. He discussed two studies where he tried to replicate a well-known finding in social cognition research related to elderly priming, which had shown that people walked more slowly after being subliminally primed with elderly related words, compared to a control condition. His presen