Promise, peril, and perspective: Addressing concerns about reproducibility in social-personality psychology

Current discussion about the evidentiary value of published research in social-personality psychology includes elements ranging in their premise. Some deride current practices as fundamentally flawed and call for extensive, perhaps even revolutionary, changes. Others are more circumspect, seeing the discipline as essentially healthy while acknowledging the need for evolution in several particulars about how research is conducted and reported. The articles in this special issue of JESP offer a variety of useful suggestions and recommendations in this latter regard. Our commentary provides an overarching perspective on these articles, suggesting a framework for considering their proposals in a way that stresses the promise of our science rather than its limitations.