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2026-03-03 05:29 UTC
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@alexh@fediscience.org 2026-03-03 05:30
Nietfeld, E. (2025.). What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong. Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/12/trauma-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk-psychology-therapy-ptsd/ Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Keeps_the_Score Learning styles . https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/05/learning-styles-myth Damian, R. I., & Roberts, B. W. (2015). Settling the debate on birth order and personality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(46), 14119–14120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519064112 What does popular media say about birth order? Compared to what? Crede, M. (2019). A Negative Effect of a Contractive Pose is not Evidence for the Positive Effect of an Expansive Pose: Comment on Cuddy, Schultz, and Fosse (2018). Meta-Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.15626/MP.2019.1723 Ferguson, C. J. (2025). Do social media experiments prove a link with mental health: A methodological and meta-analytic review. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(2), 201. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-80192-001 Bunce, C., Eggleston, A., Brennan, R., & Over, H. (2025). To what extent is research on infrahumanization confounded by intergroup preference? Royal Society Open Science, 12(4). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/12/4/241348/235666
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@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange 2026-03-03 05:42
@alexh weapon effect, power posing, ego depletion, stereotype threat, there's so many of these.
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@elduvelle@neuromatch.social 2026-03-03 07:26
@alexh We recently published this Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta-Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting It shows that an 80-year-old study, despite being consistently used in lectures and talks to say that rats and humans can do shortcuts over unvisited space, has actually not been replicated and had many flaws. The most solid replication attempts find completely different results from the original experiment while those with somewhat similar results are underpowered or poorly designed. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions about it!
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@ThomasRhysEvans@mas.to 2026-03-03 07:33
@alexh A simple but fun example about how breakfast toast-topping could affect mental health. Not shoddy research but how the evidence was distorted (and yes, potentially flawed by some other issues like COI) by the time they became media headlines…. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9W77YVPGus
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@lindamciver@aus.social 2026-03-03 07:45
@alexh Ruther Bregman does a nice takedown of the Stanford prison experiment, the bystander effect, and others in "humankind: a hopeful history" see also: practically any sex/gender psych differences research. eg Gina Rippon absolutely destroys the babies/faces experiment sex differences study in "the gendered brain"