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Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson
Episode: Megapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology?
Description: In the last decade, several major findings in social psychology have turned out to be hogwashâor, worse, even fraud. This has become widely known as psychology's "replication crisis." Perhaps you have heard of power posesâbased on a study finding that subjects reported stronger âfeelings of powerâ after they posed, say, with their hands on their hips for several minutes. But that finding did not replicate. Or perhaps you have heard of ego depletionâthe more famous assertion that, when people make a bunch of decisions, it exhausts their ability to make future decisions. Again: did not replicate.<...