Instinctual drift is somewhat counterintuitive. In particular, it's controversial how much it affects human behavior in modern society. But it replicates! http

Instinctual drift is somewhat counterintuitive. In particular, it's controversial how much it affects human behavior in modern society. But it replicates! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drift More generally, psychological concepts that can be tested in animals, particularly those found repeatedly in many different animals, can be pretty robust. It's experiments on humans that are hard, both for ethical reasons and because it's hard to "experiment" on something that's as smart as you are. But it's also specifically human cognitive psychology that makes the headlines. While Kahneman and Tversky's mistakes have been widely touted by people who don't like them, many parts of prospect theory also replicate: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0886-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0886-x