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The Good Fight

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Social Priming

There's a field of research called social priming. The basic claim is that the subtle or unconscious influences can affect us in surprisingly profound ways. A famous study from the 90s showed that if you're exposed to stimuli briefly pertaining to old people, that subsequently makes you walk slower. So there were these miraculous seeming social priming studies.

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