> The utility of even the basic stuff like operant conditioning breaks down outside of all but the most constrained lab conditions If you want to see it at wor

> The utility of even the basic stuff like operant conditioning breaks down outside of all but the most constrained lab conditions If you want to see it at work go visit the slot machines at your local casino. Edit: I've heard about the Rat Park saga from a few mouths before, so I won't read the wiki article. One thing I've noticed is that people forget that the original claim of the study stands: if the only interesting option is the addictive stimulant, the rats keep going back. The other claim that there's pernicious effects to a utopia is in addition to the other, and both claims I regard as equally instructive to how one would think about incentives in society, that goes beyond rats. Another edit: A better example of a fraudulent study would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. I don't disagree that bad faith and misguided research is a big problem is social psychology. But I think the problem is more visible in the field now, and hopefully being addressed. 'Behavioural biology' probably holds more promise in the longer term.