As older psychological studies – some classic and used for key theory development – are coming under scrutiny for lack of replicability and questionable methods, ISR’s Patricia Reuter-Lorenz, chair of U-M’s Psychology Department, says she and her colleagues are committed to staying up-to-date on developments in the field and training students to be good scientists. She says faculty address in class the flaws in some of the older studies, even when textbooks don’t. “Science is a work in progress,” says Reuter-Lorenz, and some of the controversies surrounding classic studies like the Stanford prison experiment highlight “the importance of institutional review boards.”