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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.

Ed Yong, ‘Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses’, The Atlantic, 19th Nov 2018:. ... It isn’t scornful in doing so, but it clearly thinks that the failure of 50% of these replications poses a severe challenge to the scientific

the Wellcome Collection in London puts together art and psychology, focusing especially on the fringes of consciousness.

psychology we’ve inherited.

and the psychology of its relation to stuff.

byM.C. Green and T.C. Brock, ‘The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narratives’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79 (2000), 701-721.

Especially about popular media reception of psychology, where they leap to tell us where love happens in the brain, and so on.

The art of greetings. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright discuss the origins and psychology of greetings with former diplomat Andy Scott.

Kennedy’s book examines such moments of recognition and invocation by reference to three clusters of imagery, drawing on the contemporary languages of literary criticism, psychology, physics and anthropology.

Impulsivity seems to be a hottish topic in psychology. Cognitive scientists are exploring its biological mechanisms, the brain regions and neurotransmitters involved.

In this post and another I am going to gather a few thoughts about what it has been like trying to do experiments in collaboration with colleagues from psychology faculties. ... As far as I can tell, I have never mentioned a recent essay that definitely

clever pun on the English word ‘Fie!’ This is, in short, the rude stuff — banned books; sexual psychology and physiology; books of nudes.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts’ (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000069. David Kidd and Emanuele Castano, ‘Reading Literary Fiction and Theory of Mind: Three Preregistered Replications and ... David Kidd and Emanuele Castano,

2016)’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 112 (2017), e5-e8.; doi: 10.1037/pspa0000079. ... proper psychology experiments (fascinating, mostly unsuccessful ones) involving literature …. … try something else NEW and rather BIGGER: I am

An Attempt at Replication’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111 (2016), 46-64. ... piece listed above. It’s part of Psychology’s replication boom, which I have written about a bit here.

than practitioners within, say, experimental psychology can achieve, we can read carefully and as widely as is feasible (and we certainly do have a responsibility to do this, rather than getting ... Nevertheless, in psychology I think things move

Nevertheless, in recent years, researchers in social psychology and related fields have been demonstrating the depth and ubiquity of these effects with such consistency and, sometimes, inherent drama that the whole ... A. Tesser and C. Leone,

26th June. In June 1923 he was thinking about relationships. In a letter to his friend Sebastian Sprott he doubted that psychology could give much insight into his unhappiness, even though ... your psychology is of course better than other people’s’

in Lisa Zunshine’s up-to-date and helpful collection, Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies.[5] New studies appear regularly referencing empirical cognitive research at the levels of neurology, psychology and ... The new scientists, after all,

Eliot's poetry and criticism through their affinities with discursive developments in 'new physics', optics, colour theory, cognitive psychology, and anthropology.