The power of priming is well-known to affect many decisions you make in your life. If you see a briefcase, you will become more business-oriented and more competitive; if you see the phrase 911, you will contemplate terrorism when making political judgments. But as much as priming can affect how you look at things, it becomes even stronger when you’re looking for the first time.
We are in 2020 right now and everybody who kept up knows that most priming research didn’t replicate.
It is one of dozens of failures to verify earlier social-priming findings. Many researchers say they now see social priming not so much as a way to sway people’s unconscious behaviour, but as an object lesson in how shaky statistical methods fooled scientists into publishing irreproducible results.
We are in 2020 right now and everybody who kept up knows that most priming research didn’t replicate.
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The replication crisis. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03755-2 is a nature article from last year about it with nice quotes such as: