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Publishing an Unsuccessful Self-replication: Double-dipping or Correcting the Record?

Collabra: Psychology   has a submission option called streamlined review . Authors can submit papers that were previously rejected by another journal for reasons other than a lack of scientific, methodological, or ethical rigor. Authors request permission from the original journal and then submit their revised manuscript with the original action letters and reviews. Editors like me then make a decision about the revised manuscript. This decision can be based on the ported reviews or we can solicit further reviews. One recent streamlined submission had previously been rejected by an APA journal. It is a failed self-replication. In the original experiment, the authors had found that a certain form of semantic priming, forward priming, can be eliminated by working-memory load, which suggests that forward semantic priming is not automatic. This is informative because it contradicts theories of automatic semantic priming. When they tried to follow up on this work for a new paper, howeve