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nevertheless conveys the truth about the defendant (that he is a thief, for example). ... King Lear is not about the psychology of the aging brain, nor is it a true story, and yet it may have truth to tell about the psychology of the aging

piece listed above. It’s part of Psychology’s replication boom, which I have written about a bit here. ... Anyway, the thing about the replication boom is that it’s a failed replication boom.

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

I think The Voices Within is a triumph. It ranges from sharp-edged clinical issues (people who hear voices that are distracting, disturbing, or destructive) to adventurous thinking about the role ... In one of his guises he is the Principal Investigator

This has something in common with an earlier post about the use of the word ‘fear’? ... It’s about the terms used in psychology, and the care required to understand the question before heading for an answer.

So I’ve been reading a book. It is made up of dozens of stories about the boundary between the animal and human, and about the processes of change over time, ... Well, no, it’s Michael Tye’s book about animal psychology, with its cool title.

This is all about the ‘naive utility calculus’. The idea is that from a young age our social thinking is based on an assumption that everyone is just trying to maximise ... Overall they wonder how the simplifications that result from common-sense

Typically I like to describe the argument of a recent psychology article, to offer (perhaps) some sort of critical generalist thoughts about what I think is interesting or problematic, and then ... Could we maybe think about the evolution of certain

In my last post I tried out a way of thinking about the replication crisis in psychology from a literary critic’s perspective. ... And then today I read about this latest failed attempt to reproduce a famous finding in social psychology.

narrow), and worried about the way that some popular psychology books attract the attention of general readers by (perhaps) overstating the real-life relevance of experimental findings. ... byThis is the second of two posts gathering a few thoughts about