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establishment of generalizability or the role of irrelevant variables, implementation of findings to
real world scenarios in addition to stimulation of innovative investigation combining preceding
findings from correlated studies (Schmidt & Oh , 2016). However, a significant number of
scientists have attempted to replicate studies on factors which are related to the fact recognized
as “metaphorical priming,” and more often than not these replications have been
unsuccessful. At this juncture, Asendorpf et al. (2013) have noted that priming has been
recognized as the process whereby a recent reference typically a subtle or subconscious cue tends
to increase the openness of a trait.
Why replication is difficult to achieve
In recent years, there has been found an increasing level of concern in relation to the
replicability of results in psychology that involves an elevating range of important findings
which have shown incompetence to replicate through high-powered self-governing replication
attempts. In the expression of such claims, replicability “crisis of confidence”, several efforts
have been implemented in order to amplify the reliability level of empirical findings.Like other
scientists, psychologists tend to suppose that experimental replication acts as a final arbiter for
establishing the validity of an empirical finding. Earp and Trafimow (2015) have noted that
psychology journals typically endeavour to confirm the strength of a hypothesis or assumption
with manifold experiments which tend to replicate a result. As per the view of Lilienfeld (2017)
repetition occurs as in the domain of experimental psychology, greater degree of successful
replication does not essentially guarantee the legality and soundness of an empirical finding. The
difficulties with replication in psychology are related to fundamental properties of hypothesis
testing. Studies conducted by Stewart-Williams (2015) have noted that experimental
psychologists identify that the process of hypothesis testing at times leads to Type I errors by

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