Science & Education

, Volume 17, Issue 5, pp 467–475 | Cite as

Studies in Historical Replication in Psychology I: Introduction

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Abstract

This special issue reports a project in which the replication of historically meaningful studies was carried out by graduate students in a history of psychology course. In this introduction, I outline the nature of the project and its rationale, and briefly sketch the results. The subsequent five papers represent scholarly presentations of five selected replications written by students in the course. These are followed by a commentary on the project by an educational psychologist.

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Historical Dimension Historical Question Historical Replication Metronome Beat Sleep Deprivation Experiment 
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Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Kelly Trevino, Krista Konrad, Shauna McCarthy, and Thomas Fuchs for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this introduction. The comments of audience members at the CHEIRON meeting in Berkeley, CA, and of the session discussant, Michael Ranney, were of great importance in inspiring all of us to bring this project to its present form. Finally, this is the place to indicate my personal thanks to all of the students who participated in this ‘experiment’. Without their willingness to engage in new ideas and hard work, above and beyond any conceivable program requirement, this project could scarcely have succeeded. Their engagement with the project is the best evidence of the power of historical replication as a pedagogical tool.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of PsychologyBowling Green State UniversityBowling GreenUSA
  2. 2.BeattyUSA

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