A survey by Nederhof and Zwier found that 87.6% of active psychology researchers agreed that social psychologists had shown much concern about the state of their discipline, while 34.1% still agreed that 'there is a crisis in social psychology.'
Sources
- Concerns About Replicability Across Two Crises in Social Psychology (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.1036 (rips-irsp.com)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2420130305 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-%E2%80%98crisis%E2%80%99-in-social-psychology,-an-empirical-Nederhof-Zwier/be2cd726c0f02c6cc3d5c5887ea1b612e88d198d (semanticscholar.org)
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