The present article addresses the concept of reproducibility in psychological science, suggesting that strict adherence to reproducibility as a scientific principle may be overstated and even questionable. It argues that psychological phenomena are inherently non-reproducible due to their variability across situations, tasks, and individuals. Despite methodological and measurement errors inherent in psychological research, the variability of psychological phenomena should be embraced as reflective of the complexity of human nature. Therefore, reproducibility alone cannot determine the existence or reality of psychological phenomena. The author highlights the limitations of scientific methods in proving negatives and emphasizes the theoretical and empirical support for psychological phenomena. Furthermore, due to the nature of such phenomena, it’s important to study their theoretical and empirical characteristics from multiple perspectives and criteria, considering both subjective and objective realities.

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