ABSTRACT
Many scientific disciplines, including the behavioral sciences, are currently embroiled in a reproducibility crisis, which has been brought about by a combination of journals’ bias for publishing statistically significant effects and researchers’ inclination to cater to this bias by exploiting their degrees of freedom in conducting, analyzing, and reporting studies. In this chapter, we review the history of the reproducibility crisis, provide illustrative examples from the field of social neuroendocrinology, and give recommendations for strengthening future research in social neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the adoption of a registered-report system of scientific publication.
