In a long and interesting article over at Edge, social neuroscientist Matthew Lieberman discusses (amongst other things) the 'replication crisis' in his field. Much of what he says will be of interest to regular readers of this blog. Lieberman notes that there has been a lot of controversy over 'embodied cognition' and social priming research. For instance,
There are studies suggesting that washing your hands can affect your sense of being moral or immoral, and so on. These studies are very interesting. They're very counter-intuitive, which I think leads lots of people to wonder whether or not they're legitimate.
Lately there was a particular, well-publicized case of a non-replication of one of these counter-intuitive effects, and Lieberman discusses this, but I think the issue is a general one. Here's what Lieberman says (emphasis mine) about the effort to try and replicate these findings:
I do have some issues with the ...
