[Link] Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act

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Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act

Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman has issued a strongly worded call to one group of psychologists to restore the credibility of their field by creating a replication ring to check each others’ results.

Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University in New Jersey, addressed his open e-mail to researchers who work on social priming, the study of how subtle cues can unconsciously influence our thoughts or behaviour. For example, volunteers might walk more slowly down a corridor after seeing words related to old age¹, or fare better in general-knowledge tests after writing down the attributes of a typical professor².

Yeah, the part of Thinking Fast and Slow where Kahneman cites the walking-down-a-hall-slowly study and then says a page later "You must believe these results! They are science studies!" must have been embarrassing when that study failed to replicate.

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