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