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Comment author: alex_zag_al 13 December 2012 01:21:16AM 0 points [-]

I'm not going to believe an experiment, especially an experiment whose conclusion goes against scientific consensus. However, I'd believe a review article that tells me how psychologists interpreted the experiment and the investigations that followed it. There's much more weight of evidence in a review article - many experiments rather than one, and an expert's conclusions based upon them.

I hope, though, that my belief changes somehow after seeing the experiment - enough to think it worth my time to look up a review, perhaps.