SPP 2317:  META-REP: A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences

• Subject Area: Social and Behavioural Sciences ; Biology ; Humanities ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering ; Medicine
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441890184

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• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Australia, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

Projects

• A large-scale collaborative assessment of the replicability and robustness of EEG research (Applicants Busch, Niko ;  Pavlov, Ph.D., Yuri )
• A principled Bayesian workflow to study robust individual differences in cognitive science (Applicant Haaf, Ph.D., Julia M. )
• Addressing the generalizability crisis with large language models (Applicant Wulff, Dirk )
• Applying Principles from the Validity-Based Framework of Replication in Metastudies to Test Causal Relations (Applicant Jekel, Marc )
• Cognitive modelling: Blessing or curse for replicability in Psychology? (Applicants Rausch, Ph.D., Manuel ;  Zehetleitner, Michael )
• Conceptual Replications – Guidelines for implementation and factors influencing replicability across different fields in psychology (Applicants Gast, Anne ;  Pohl, Steffi ;  Sengewald, Marie-Ann ;  Twardawski, Mathias )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Gollwitzer, Mario )
• Enhancing Reproducibility and Robustness of Observational Social Science Research (Applicants Auspurg, Katrin ;  Brüderl, Josef )
• Facing the replication crisis in machine learning modeling (Applicants Jankowsky, Kristin ;  Schroeders, Ulrich )
• Fostering Proactive Replicability in Computational Communication Science via Frontloading Effort and Automating Protocols (Applicants Breuer, Johannes ;  Haim, Mario )
• From “Academic works” to “Working in academia”: Analyzing reform proposals in an agent-based modelling approach (Applicant Schönbrodt, Felix )
• METEOR 2.0 – MastEring community knowledge-driven robusTnEss analysis in cOgnitive neuRoscience (Applicants Debener, Stefan ;  Gießing, Carsten ;  Hildebrandt, Andrea ;  Thiel, Christiane M. )
• Models, Measures, Moderators - Exploring and Explaining Heterogeneity in Psychological Replications (Applicants Heene, Moritz ;  Renkewitz, Frank )
• Replicability and Robustness of Instrumental Variables and Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics (Applicant Ankel-Peters, Jörg )
• Standardization of Behavior Research Methods as a Determinant of Replicability (Applicant Lennartz, Ruben )
• SYNTH: Evaluating Transformer Models to Generate Synthetic Replications, Nomological Nets, and Peer Reviews (Applicants Hommel, Björn ;  Lennartz, Ruben )
• Systematising Theory Building (Applicant Schmalz, Xenia )
• The reproducibility and robustness of secondary analyses in educational research: The role of publication bias and researcher degrees of freedom (Applicants Jansen, Malte ;  Kocaj, Aleksander )
• The role of measurement in the replicability of empirical findings (Applicants Frick, Susanne ;  Wetzel, Eunike )
• The Role of Theory in Understanding and Resolving the Reliability Crisis (Applicant Breznau, Ph.D., Nate )
• Theory Specification and Replicability (Applicant Glöckner, Andreas )

• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Mario Gollwitzer