I know the priming studies got eviscerated, but the last time I looked into this I couldn’t exactly find an easy list of “famous psychology studies that didn’t replicate” to compare against.
My understanding is that even this story is more complicated; Lauren Lee summarizes it on Facebook as follows:
OK, the Wikipedia article on priming mostly refers to effects of the first kind (faster processing on lexical decision tasks and such) and not the second kind (different decision-making or improved performance in general).
So uh. To me it just looks like psych researchers over-loaded the term ‘priming’ with a bunch of out-there hypotheses like “if the clipboard you’re holding is heavy, you are more likely to ‘feel the significance’ of the job candidate.” I mean REALLY, guys. REALLY.
Priming has been polluted, and this is a shame.
I would not be surprised if most of the references in the Sequences are to old-school definitions of various terms that are more likely to survive, which complicates the research task quite a bit.
My understanding is that even this story is more complicated; Lauren Lee summarizes it on Facebook as follows:
I would not be surprised if most of the references in the Sequences are to old-school definitions of various terms that are more likely to survive, which complicates the research task quite a bit.