I’m approaching the end of my first semester teaching Intro to Social Psychology. As someone who came of age during the peak of the replication crisis (Bem, Stapel, Reproducibility Project), studies publication bias, and has had a hard time finding statistically significant results, I generally have a dim view of big chunks of the literature. I was worried that we would have very little to talk about given all the uncertainty, but we’ve made a good semester of it by talking about the gene...
