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Has the author tried the trick called free will
by hcks 3y ago
Has the author tried the trick called free will
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoA store owner does a marketing survey to find out what kind of music customers might like. The narrative is that he turns on a mind control device that makes you buy 5% more. With the debunking of "Thinking fast, and slow" this branch of psychology has hopefully run its course.
- selectodude 3y agoI assure you behavioral economics has not run its course.
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoThat's pretty broad. I am referring to the style of analysis that heavily attributes slight environmental priming over all others factors (character, education, religion, mood, etc).
- T3OU-736 3y ago"Thinking, Fast and Slow" has been debunked? Could you provide a bit more context?
- Strilanc 3y ago"Thinking, Fast and Slow" was written before the replication crisis was found. I wouldn't call it "debunked", but some of the research it used didn't replicate. For example, see https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-pe... : > It is likely that Kahneman’s book, or at least some of his chapters, would be very different from the actual book, if it had been written just a few years later. However, in 2011 most psychologists believed that most published results in their journals can be trusted. [...] > Kahneman also started to wonder whether some of the results that he used in his book were real. A major concern was that implicit priming results might not be replicable. [...] Anyways, just google "thinking fast and slow replication crisis" to get a bunch of information about this topic.
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoI don't have links handy but the gist of it is that regular people do not automatically interpret questions asked of them in a technical manner (carefully parsing AND and OR logically), but instead try to intuit the asker's intent based on context. So many of the studies concluded that the general population is unable to reason about trivial problems involving likelihood. However, when given more context about what's being asked, they absolutely can.
- sidewndr46 3y agoI pretty much quit reading this when I read "emotional part" of your brain. As if the brain has explicit distinct parts with complete barriers between them and that they are selectively turned on and off. We're not unemotional when making logical decisions nor completely irrational when emotional moments occur. If human consicousness were so simple we wouldn't bother studying it.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoMarketing works because free will is illusory. Humans are not tht free agents they believe themselves to be.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoI make choices of my own free will all the time. Also, marketing doesn't work on me (never has) so I'm not particularly impressed by the claims that it works.
- resolutebat 3y agoPlease allow Miranda Priestley to disabuse you of that notion: https://youtu.be/Ja2fgquYTCg?feature=shared https://youtu.be/Ja2fgquYTCg?feature=shared
- HeatrayEnjoyer 3y agoYou can tell yourself that, sure. But it is empirically false.