Where Can Big Team Science Go Next? Foundational Tests, Unique Populations, and Strict Theory Testing

Big Team Science involves multiple sites of independent research labs from potentially all over the world coming together to run the same study. The power with which these studies tackle issues of replicability and generalizability are unprecedented in Psychological science. Here, we discuss new places Big Team Science can go on top of investigating issues of replicability and generalizability. 1) Big Team Science can leverage collective intelligence to identify studies that are foundational to specific theories and test them; 2) Big Team Science can leverage the data collection capabilities of numerous labs to collect data on hard to reach populations to provide theoretical advances in psychology; 3) Big Team Science can be merged with adversarial collaborations to put theories in psychology to strict experimental tests. With the growth of Big Team Science comes new avenues for advancing psychological theory.