A better way for JPSP to have handled Bem’s paper would be to invite comments from reputable scholars before publishing it, and then print the comments (and replies from Bem et al.) in the same issue. Other journals have followed this strategy with particularly controversial articles.
As it stands now, JPSP (the premier social psych journal) just looks ridiculous.
A better way for JPSP to have handled Bem’s paper would be to invite comments from reputable scholars before publishing it, and then print the comments (and replies from Bem et al.) in the same issue. Other journals have followed this strategy with particularly controversial articles.
As it stands now, JPSP (the premier social psych journal) just looks ridiculous.
I believe they did publish a rebuttal in the same issue, but that didn’t allow the time needed for replications.