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Comment author: PhilGoetz 23 March 2009 05:10:14AM 2 points [-]

These consistency effects are reminiscent of Yvain’s large, unnoticed priming effects -- except that they’re based on your actions rather than your sense-perceptions,

If they wanted to show that, they should have had a control group that observed other people taking those actions.

Observing yourself doing something is still observing it, and priming could still account for the results.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 23 March 2009 05:13:26AM *  2 points [-]

Priming effects are supposed to last for minutes, not for the weeks that effects lasted in the petition experiment and the forbidden toy experiment.

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