Anyone have ideas about how to easily and convincingly falsify pjeby's and/or lionhearted's hypotheses about psychology?

Humans just seem to function better when they can realistically believe they are behaving in ways that are admired by others in their social circle.

(Tangential:) I'm not sure, but I think a big perk of the existence of the LW community is that to some extent it is such a social circle.