Context Dependency as a Predictor of Replicability

IF 3.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Review of General Psychology Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/10892680211015635
M. Gollwitzer, J. Schwabe
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We scrutinize the argument that unsuccessful replications—and heterogeneous effect sizes more generally—may reflect an underappreciated influence of context characteristics. Notably, while some of these context characteristics may be conceptually irrelevant (as they merely affect psychometric properties of the measured/manipulated variables), others are conceptually relevant as they qualify a theory. Here, we present a conceptual and analytical framework that allows researchers to empirically estimate the extent to which effect size heterogeneity is due to conceptually relevant versus irrelevant context characteristics. According to this framework, contextual characteristics are conceptually relevant when the observed heterogeneity of effect sizes cannot be attributed to psychometric properties. As an illustrative example, we demonstrate that the observed heterogeneity of the “moral typecasting” effect, which had been included in the ManyLabs 2 replication project, is more likely attributable to conceptually relevant rather than irrelevant context characteristics, which suggests that the psychological theory behind this effect may need to be specified. In general, we argue that context dependency should be taken more seriously and treated more carefully by replication research.
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上下文依赖性作为可复制性的预测因子
我们仔细研究了不成功的复制——以及更普遍的异质效应大小——可能反映了环境特征的未被充分认识的影响。值得注意的是,虽然这些背景特征中的一些可能在概念上无关紧要(因为它们只影响被测量/操纵变量的心理测量特性),但其他一些在概念上相关,因为它们限定了一个理论。在这里,我们提出了一个概念和分析框架,使研究人员能够经验地估计效应大小异质性在多大程度上是由于概念相关与不相关的背景特征。根据这一框架,当观察到的效应大小的异质性不能归因于心理测量特性时,情境特征在概念上是相关的。作为一个说说性的例子,我们证明了在ManyLabs 2复制项目中观察到的“道德类型塑造”效应的异质性,更有可能归因于概念相关而不是无关的上下文特征,这表明这种效应背后的心理学理论可能需要指定。总的来说,我们认为在复制研究中应该更认真地对待和更仔细地对待上下文依赖性。
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Review of General Psychology
Review of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Review of General Psychology seeks to publish innovative theoretical, conceptual, or methodological articles that cross-cut the traditional subdisciplines of psychology. The journal contains articles that advance theory, evaluate and integrate research literatures, provide a new historical analysis, or discuss new methodological developments in psychology as a whole. Review of General Psychology is especially interested in articles that bridge gaps between subdisciplines in psychology as well as related fields or that focus on topics that transcend traditional subdisciplinary boundaries.
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