The thing with the reproducibility crisis is that a lot of psychology theories have the "looking under light post effect" (a drunk looses his glasses in a river and a police officer finds looking under a light post, "because at least I can see here). It's been well known for centuries that human motivations are complex, socially layered and contextual. But most psychology theories wind-up fairly simplistic and not framed by multiple contexts because ... these can be easily tested (except apparently they can't be easily reproduced, uh..).

I don't know any easy way out here. Just because "folk psychology" can say formal psychology is too simple doesn't mean folk psychology and anecdote are more useful.