 In times of crisis, says Kuhn, scientists are plagued by “malaise”. Such malaise has recently become most evident in social psychology’s replication crisis. For example, two pre-registered replications of the so-called “ego-depletion effect” recently found that, despite decades of positive studies and successful meta-analyses, there appears to be no such effect (Hagger et al. 2016; Lurquin et al. 2016). A science journalist writing for Slate magazine described these findings as “not just worrying” but “terrifying”, because they suggest that an entire field of research is “suspicious” (Engber 2016, see  Other Internet Resources).  The article quotes Evan Carter, one of the young scientists in the thick of the crisis, saying,