 This virtual absence of replication studies in the literature can explained by the fact that many scientific journals have historically had explicit policies against publishing replication studies (Mahoney 1985)—thus giving rise to a “publication bias”. Over 70% of editors from 79 social science journals said they preferred new studies over replications and over 90% said they would did not encourage the submission of replication studies (Neuliep &amp; Crandall 1990). In addition, many science funding bodies also fund only “novel”, “original” and/or “groundbreaking” research (Schmidt 2009).