Abstract
Editorial: The Value and Status of Replications in Animal Behavior and Cognition Research
Highlights
This issue leads with an important and timely article on replication efforts in comparative cognition (Farrar et al 2020)
This has the advantage of increasing our confidence in the resulting data as reflecting accurately the nature of animal behavior and cognition
Others such as those raised by Farrar et al (2020) and Stevens (2017), Animal Behavior and Cognition was among the first journals in comparative behavioral and cognitive research to offer pre-registered reports (Vonk & Krause, 2018)
Summary
This issue leads with an important and timely article on replication efforts in comparative cognition (Farrar et al 2020). The need for replication is central to understanding better the nature of animal cognition and behavior, and it aids in preventing some of the unintentional and perhaps intentional practices of selectively reporting data (such as “p-hacking”; Stevens, 2017). The opportunity for preregistration of methods and analysis plans is an important tool for comparative researchers moving forward, as is true in many areas of science.
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