Psychology Exceptionalism and the Multiple Discovery of the Replication Crisis

This article outlines what we call the “narrative of psychology exceptionalism” in commentaries on replication crisis: many thoughtful link current crisis to specificity psychology’s history, methods, and subject matter, but explorations similarities between other fields are comparatively thin. Historical analyses further contribute this exceptionalism by creating a genealogy events personalities that shares little common with fields. We aim rebalance narrative examining emergence evolution discussions alongside their biomedicine. Through mixed-methods analysis biomedical sciences, find these conversations have, from early years crisis, shared core centers concerns about effectiveness traditional peer review, need for greater transparency methods data, perverse incentive structure academia. Drawing Robert Merton’s framework analyzing multiple discovery science, argue nearly simultaneous across suggests there historical, cultural, or institutional factors driving disillusionment established scientific practices.