Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 118, Issue 44, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103313118
Keywords
scarcity; reproducibility; open science; meta-analysis; evidentiary value
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- Haas School of Business
- NSF [DGE 1752814]
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Empirical audit and review is a method for assessing the evidentiary value in a research area, allowing researchers to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches while enhancing scientific accumulation in the field.
Empirical audit and review is an approach to assessing the evidentiary value of a research area. It involves identifying a topic and selecting a cross-section of studies for replication. We apply the method to research on the psychological consequences of scarcity. Starting with the papers citing a seminal publication in the field, we conducted replications of 20 studies that evaluate the role of scarcity priming in pain sensitivity, resource allocation, materialism, and many other domains. There was considerable variability in the replicability, with some strong successes and other undeniable failures. Empirical audit and review does not attempt to assign an overall replication rate for a heterogeneous field, but rather facilitates researchers seeking to incorporate strength of evidence as they refine theories and plan new investigations in the research area. This method allows for an integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches to review and enables the growth of a cumulative science.
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