It's honestly derogatory. I would posit this type of research is strongly motivated by the wont of certain individuals to dispel outright any conception of supe

It's honestly derogatory. I would posit this type of research is strongly motivated by the wont of certain individuals to dispel outright any conception of superstition. A la hard-line atheists. They're not intent on observation and development of understanding but rather destruction. Again, I would push that ancestral explanations tend to hold a kernel of truth and with it value. However, they're very much Fisher Price building blocks, moreover they're nth-hand and have been prostituted into industries and perverted in the process. Sensitivities have declined, people are reactive, and have in many parts of the world grown averse to such enchantment, so motive for a Hawthorne Effect exists, examining behavioral spectra as it relates to seasons and planetary shifts and tides/moon/solar cycles is I'm sure increasingly noisy as to have abated it's appearance almost entirely. Lest we forget our past was exclusively environmentally determined. Sedentary cultivars of humans have only existed for what is essentially the blink of an eye on the evolutionary timescale. And we have only had the probe of formal psychology for an equivalent of a microsecond and it proves unwieldy even now. And we wouldn't be special in such a lunar/solar/seasonal regime. What I would say is that it shouldn't be discounted out of hand, and that is all.