update: this reading is now only strongly recommended, not required
One of our readings this week is about Pierre Dragicevic and Yvonne Jansen trying to replicate a study done in Brian Wansink’s laboratory. I like the paper because of the care it takes in trying to understand what experimental details matter and really understanding what a (seemingly) simple experiment really means.
It turns out that Brian Wansink’s work has (very recently) come into question more broadly (see this article in Science magazine’s website).