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The OSC Science paper separates cognitive and social psychology papers and journals, and cognitive psychology papers replicate at about twice the rate of social psychology papers. But still only a bit more than half of the cognitive papers replicate, so I think there are still deeper issues.

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But still only a bit more than half of the cognitive papers replicate, so I think there are still deeper issues.

That puts them in the general level of quality for all bio-medical research, so, yeah, deeper issues indeed, but I find it fascinating that this sub-group is so good.

This because that sub-group is very, very close to medical research.

The problem with social psychology, on the whole, is that it's highly politicized. This is especially true with regards to any study involving race, gender, or "identity" (in the sense of identity politics).

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