Many kicks: A proposal for a multi lab project aiming to replicate the main findings of a highly cited eye tracking study

Research in the wider sports sciences, including skill acquisition, typically suffers from small sample sizes due to the challenge of recruiting skilled participants from small population pools. As highlighted in a large-scale replication project within the sport sciences (Murphy et al., 2025), studies with small sample sizes are often less likely to replicate. In other psychology domains, research communities have come together to tackle this challenge by conducting “Many Labs” projects, where a large group of researchers collaborate to collect data on one project from several sites. The aim is to build a much larger participant pool and ensure the results are a more accurate reflection of the actual population effect, and are therefore more likely to replicate. This poster will overview a project proposal led by myself and Matt Miller- Dicks to conduct a conceptual replication of Dicks et al., (2010) with a considerably larger sample size, and a simplified study design. To achieve this, we are proposing a multi-lab project to collect data from multiple sites to ensure the findings are as robust as possible. The aim of this poster is to raise awareness of our project and the importance of open research practices in the sport sciences.