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"Don't we all want to poke pins into fabric mannequins labelled as our loved ones, or to deface their photographs or whatever?
"Don't we all want to poke pins into fabric mannequins labelled as our loved ones, or to deface their photographs or whatever?
A few months ago, I posted an online preprint titled The Generalizability Crisis. Here’s the abstract: Most theories and…
You might have a productivity hack that you swear by. But do they actually work, or do they help you perform because you think…
Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of previously…
In debates on the validity of academic research findings, focus has been drawn to so-called questionable research practices…
"Social priming" has recently been one of the most controversial topics in psychological science. With failures to replicate…
Axel Cleeremans writes: I appreciated your piece titled “What has happened down here is the winds have changed”. Your mini-histor…
Last year, psychologists B. Keith Payne and colleagues breathed new life into the debate over 'social priming' with a paper…
Although it’s the right thing to do, it’s never easy to admit error — particularly when you’re an extremely high-profile…
"Social priming" has been the punching-bag of psychology for the past few years. The term "social priming" refers to the idea…
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© Julien Magne. L’expérience n’est pas récente, elle fête même ses vingt ans cette année. Mais elle a toujours de quoi fasciner…
Below is the text of my presentation to the Sydney Behavioural Economics and Behavioural Science Meetup on 11 May 2016. The…
(* with apologies to Oscar Wilde) Replication is never far from the news in psychology these days. Pick up a newspaper or…
(* with apologies to Oscar Wilde) Replication is never far from the news in psychology these days. Pick up a newspaper or…
The scientific controversy over social priming - the (claimed) ability of incidental exposure to stimuli to 'prime' or evoke…
Controversy is essential to scientific progress. As Richard Feynman said, "science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.…
Jennifer Raff wrote a useful guest post on the PeerJ Blog: How To Become Good At Peer-Review. Most of its advice is excellent…
My latest ‘behind the headlines’ column for The Conversation. Probably all old news for you wised-up mindhacks.com readers, but…
In my previous post I described how direct replications provide insight into the reliability of findings but not so much their…
You could be forgiven for thinking that academic psychologists have all suddenly turned into professional whistleblowers.
Leading social psychologist and Yale Professor John Bargh has been at the center of a number of controversies lately.Most…
Daniel Kahneman (Princeton U.) Daniel Kahneman sent an e-mail last week to a dozen social psychologists, spelling out what he…
The concept of priming in psychology refers to the unconscious effect that a stimulus can have on future behavior. For example…
PLOS ONE is pleased to announce a collaboration with Science Exchange and figshare in a groundbreaking new project: The…
Last week Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, out-spoken atheist, and author of The God Gene, announced his support for…
Recently a controversy broke out over the replicability of a study John Bargh et al. published in 1996. The study reported that…
On his blog, The Natural Unconscious, Situationist Contributor John Bargh has posted a long response to an article written by a…
John Bargh, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University has written a blog post that’s currently receiving…
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As an illustration of the power of priming experiments to produce astonishing findings, a recent study shows that people tend…
As an illustration of the power of priming experiments to produce astonishing findings, a recent study shows that people tend…
Do the expectations of researchers have an effect on the outcome of their studies? Sometimes, yes. That's the topic of a new…
In the early 20th century, the world was captivated by a mathematical horse called Clever Hans. He could apparently perform…