Crisis in Psychology?

[John 6IX Breezy]

Yes, I think a failure to replicate may be an important finding in itself. If nothing else, it reminds us not to be too confident. 

Right, in other words, failure to replicate is informative but not conclusive. The next step should be to explain why results varied between experiments just like we would explain why height varies between people. Replication isn't there to uncover questionable research practices—those can and ought to be filtered out prior to publication. So, I'm going to (naively) assume that if a study got published that it successfully passed quality control and its results are meaningful unless otherwise indicated.

As for confidence, this is where Bayesian inference comes in. We can ask what the probability is that a study is wrong given that it failed to replicate. Which takes into account the probability that any study fails to replicate when it is right (false negatives).

Lately people have imported the word "sutoresu," from "stress." I think this came in via engineering, from stress checks on airplane wings, etc. But there's no guarantee that the nuance has travelled properly. Nor is there any guarantee that effective treatments would be the same.

I was interested in phenomenology once because I saw it as a way to answer these questions about experience. People tend to have low-resolution perspectives of their emotions. So I had a personal project once (and still do) in which I construct a formula for categorizing and recognizing my own emotions. For example, I ask myself what the valence of the emotion I'm feeling is (negative). If it originates due to internal or external circumstances (external). What the emotion is wanting me to do (run away). Until I can reliably label each emotion (fear). My goal was to understand what something like jealousy feels like me for me as an individual by deconstructing it.

Maybe its been done before but such an approach would be useful in communicating emotions across individuals. Knowing whether you feel stress in your shoulders or your stomach is important information that shouldn't be lost in the word stress.