A Falsification Assessment Form by Michael Höfler

On June 25, 2025 Michael Höfler, Anja Kräplin, and colleagues received a Commendation Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) for their work on “A Falsification Assessment Form”. The team developed a tool designed to uphold the seminal idea of falsifiability by the German philosopher Karl Popper. The form includes questions that examine the extent to which confirmatory claims in research papers could have turned out to be false. It covers the entire research process—from hypothesis formulation to data analysis. The background to this is the replication crisis in psychological research, where independent attempts to replicate experimental findings frequently fail. One explanation for this is the use of research practices that compromise falsifiability—practices the instrument helps to identify.

Further information is available in the preprint at: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/eck8y_v1