Replicability and Reproducibility in Comparative Psychology

Psychology faces a replication crisis. The Reproducibility Project: Psychology sought to replicate the effects of 100 psychology studies. Though 97% of the original studies produced statistically significant results, only 36% of the replication studies did so (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). This inability to replicate previously published results, however, is not limited to psychology Replication projects in medicine Science, in general, is reckoning with challenges in one of its basic tenets: replication.