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as @tiglionabbit mentioned, this is priming. The term should be famous now thanks to the books "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "Nudge". Also probably a dose of re
by bimr 10y ago
as @tiglionabbit mentioned, this is priming.
The term should be famous now thanks to the books "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "Nudge". Also probably a dose of recency bias.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/psyching-us-out/?_r=0 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/psyching-us-...
- gojomo 10y agoAnd yet, perhaps an equally-apt word is infamous, because 'priming' effects appear often among those psychological research results that fail-to-reproduce: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/ http://www.chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
- bimr 10y agoAlthough, to be fair to Richard Thaler, the article you cite itself falls prey to the 1/n "mental accounting" heuristic. It gives half of its attention to a call center replication that did support the priming effect.
- vannevar 10y agoI agree: nothing in the study seems to control for the simple proximity of the food or entertainment, compared to actually seeing someone enjoy it.