psychology in crisis

Psychology needs to get tired of winning Gerald J. Haeffel Psychological science is on an extraordinary winning streak. A review of the published literature shows that nearly all study hypotheses are supported. This means that either all the theories are correct, or the literature is biased...

I thought this was interesting, thanks to Cyrus (EDIT: and Matthew Dalby) for highlighting this on Twitter. I'll try to explain briefly what this is about and why it is relevant to ME/CFS. Power posing is the idea that taking a posture associated with being powerful, result in a feeling of...

Main article is paywalled but this abstract is worthy just for the phrase: "synthetic certainties" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34240651/ Travis Proulx, Richard D. Morey First Published July 9, 2021; pp. 671–681 PMID: 34240651 DOI: 10.1177/17456916211017098 Abstract More than 40...

I've finally found a useful overview of findings in psychology that were once in high esteem but are now refuted. See: https://www.gleech.org/psych Many of the things were in psychology textbooks quite recently, including: Macbeth effect Pygmalion effect Ego depletion Power posing Stanford...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-019-01645-2

Being too sick today to write the posts, hellos and welcome messages I would like to write, I instead asked the two nearest libraries to buy @Brian Hughes' Psychology in Crisis (just in case you don't know: most libraries have online forms for asking to buy a book ), and opened this thread...