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Review
. 2017 Sep;12(5):742-756.
doi: 10.1177/1745691617690042.

It's Time to Broaden the Replicability Conversation: Thoughts for and From Clinical Psychological Science

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It's Time to Broaden the Replicability Conversation: Thoughts for and From Clinical Psychological Science

Jennifer L Tackett et al. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2017 Sep.

Abstract

Psychology is in the early stages of examining a crisis of replicability stemming from several high-profile failures to replicate studies in experimental psychology. This important conversation has largely been focused on social psychology, with some active participation from cognitive psychology. Nevertheless, several other major domains of psychological science-including clinical science-have remained insulated from this discussion. The goals of this article are to (a) examine why clinical psychology and allied fields, such as counseling and school psychology, have not been central participants in the replicability conversation; (b) review concerns and recommendations that are less (or more) applicable to or appropriate for research in clinical psychology and allied fields; and

Keywords: assessment; diagnosis; disorders; scientific methodology.

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