This paper was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That's interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's a rather well regarded

This paper was published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That's interesting for two reasons. The first is that it's a rather well regarded journal with a very high impact rate. The other is because it's one of the journals that's driven the replication crisis plaguing psychology. [1] In particular the journal this was published in was found to have an overall replication rate of 23%. Another way of putting this is that if you assumed anything you read in this journal was not true, you'd be vastly more accurately informed (nearly a 4:1 rate!) than somebody who genuinely believed what was published in the journal. Anyhow, back to your regularly scheduled series of anecdotal accounts validating confirmation bias. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_replication_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#Psychology_...