Conclusion

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While we have build this paper around the example of social facilitation, the points raised above in the discussion are broadly applicable to the literature in social sciences. The limited reproducibility of results in psychology evidenced in \cite{rpp} supports this statement, even though variations might be observed regarding why each of the reported effects could not be replicated.
We are however not suggesting that HRI should not build on psychology anymore. Quite the contrary. The authors of this paper have strong ties with psychology, and do routinely ground their work in theoretical frameworks provided by psychology. If anything else, we do encourage the community to keep on building new links with all the neighbouring academic fields, and psychology is quite possibly the first of those.
However we need to be remain lucid: results in psychology are not a gold standard. We must exert a critical questioning.