After all the talk about reproducibility problems in psychological studies, and especially after reading examples such as the following from [1]: > A while ago

After all the talk about reproducibility problems in psychological studies, and especially after reading examples such as the following from [1]: > A while ago, Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg published a famous priming study showing that people who spend a few minutes before an exam thinking about brilliant professors will get better grades; conversely, people who spend a few minutes thinking about moronic soccer hooligans will get worse ones. They did four related experiments, and all strongly confirmed their thesis. A few years later, Shanks et al tried to replicate the effect and couldn’t. They did the same four experiments, and none of them replicated at all. My natural reaction is to take any such study with a grain of salt. [1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/05/if-you-cant-make-predictions-youre-still-in-a-crisis/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/05/if-you-cant-make-predic...