Replication copies a public study into your workspace as a faithful starting point, so you can re-run it as-is or adapt it — with the lineage back to the original preserved.
Replicate a study
From Browse, the Explore community band, or a researcher’s public profile, click Replicate. MRL copies the study’s latest frozen version into your active workspace:
- Block instance IDs are preserved, so the replication aligns to the original block-by-block.
- Conditions and variants come along.
- No participant data is ever copied — only the design.
Faithful vs adapted
- Run as-is to reproduce the original.
- Adapt the materials, wording, or sample to your own question — the replication tracks how it diverges from the pinned original (per-block divergence badges), so reviewers can see exactly what changed.
Freeze gate
A study must be frozen (preregistered or published) before it can be replicated — you can only build on a citable version, never a moving draft.
Replications notify the original author (and their followers), which is how good designs spread on the platform.