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Comment author: Morendil 02 May 2010 09:42:06AM 1 point [-]

to what extent is pickup scientific

Piling on to this excellent comment, I have a more specific interest in "how scientific is NLP".

Comment author: HughRistik 02 May 2010 07:30:46PM 0 points [-]

That is indeed a good question that I don't know the answer to. Though it has been my impression that some of the ideas in NLP are parasitic on mainstream psychology. For example, "anchoring" seems related to classical conditioning.