Currently, there is little guidance for navigating measurement challenges that threaten
construct validity in replication research. To identify common challenges and ultimately …

Academic Abstract Clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories influence first impressions.
However, target dress is notably absent from current theories and models of person …

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

The diversity of human faces and the contexts in which they appear gives rise to an
expansive stimulus space over which people infer psychological traits (eg, trustworthiness or …

Behavioral researchers increasingly recognize the need for more diverse samples that
capture the breadth of human experience. Current attempts to establish generalizability …

Impressions from faces are made remarkably quickly and they can underpin behaviour in a
wide variety of social contexts. Over the last decade many studies have sought to trace the …

Research has found that attractiveness has a positive “halo effect”, where people tend to
attribute socially desirable personality traits to physically attractive individuals. Several …

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Progress in psychology has been frustrated by challenges concerning replicability,
generalizability, strategy selection, inferential reproducibility, and computational …

More than 40 years ago, Paul Meehl (1978) published a seminal critique of the state of
theorizing in psychological science. According to Meehl, the quality of theories had …