Absolutely. But outside of Social Psychology there are strong, genuine disagreements --to say the least-- on whether "conceptual" replications are a valid sourc

Absolutely. But outside of Social Psychology there are strong, genuine disagreements --to say the least-- on whether "conceptual" replications are a valid source of converging evidence at all. See for instance [1,2] for typical reactions. [1] http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-cant-replicate-concept.html http://neurochambers.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-cant-replicate... [2] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/13/2/90/ http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/13/2/90/