Don't conflate Experimental Psychology as a whole with the subfield of Social Psychology, or the particular social priming community. While it is true that the

Don't conflate Experimental Psychology as a whole with the subfield of Social Psychology, or the particular social priming community. While it is true that the "skills" argument and "conceptual" replications are well-established methodological pillars within this subfield, they are far from standard outside of it. This is why this string of multiple replication failures and fraud scandals have turned the spotlight to these practices from within the discipline, with reasonable and high-profile people openly questioning their validity and pushing for a whole "replication movement" [1-4]. So it's not just HN commenters, you know. [1] http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10634 http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10... [2] http://chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/ http://chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/ [3] http://www.psycontent.com/content/311q281518161139/fulltext.pdf http://www.psycontent.com/content/311q281518161139/fulltext.... [4] http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/suppinfoFile/Kahneman%20Letter.pdf http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/suppinf...