How do you replicate a classic experiment when the original materials no longer exist?
In this episode of Research as it Happens, Rolf Zwaan talks with Anita Eerland (Radboud University Nijmegen), who leads the visual stimuli team for the project's replication of the famous Loftus and Palmer (1974) study.
At first glance, the task seems straightforward: find a suitable traffic accident video. But as the conversation reveals, reconstructing a classic experiment raises a surprising number of questions. What begins as a discussion about finding a crash video gradually becomes a conversation about a deeper question: what exactly are we trying to replicate? The original materials, or the psychological experience they were designed to create?
Music written and performed by Rolf Zwaan
Comment or question? Send an email: zwaan@essb.eur.nl
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