Didn't Survive the Replication Crisis?

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Some of that priming stuff is interesting. Some of it didn't replicate, so it remains to be seen. But your larger point is true. You know, if you ask people why you did something, why are you a catholic? Almost no one says, well, you know, my parents were, and i just do,. And oanmin i deno tho, if you get rid of the camera, you get the effect. There was an ony, lot of incompetence that went into that first report in science by nosik and his colleagues - about half of psychology studies don't replicate.

In this wide-ranging conversation Shermer and Nisbett discuss Nisbett’s research showing how people reason, how people should reason, why errors in reasoning occur, how much you can improve reasoning, what kinds of problems are best solved by the conscious mind and what kinds by the unconscious mind, and how we should think about intelligence, along with the controversies over group differences and genetic influences on I.Q. scores and why Charles Murray (The Bell Curve) is wrong in inferring genetic causes for group differences in I.Q.. Nisbett also shows that self-knowledge can be dramatically off-kilter and points to ways to improve it, and demonstrates how different cultures have radically different ways of reasoning and feeling, and how this led to his most famous research showing the difference between Northerners and Southerners in rates of violence, the culture of honor, and a hair-trigger for slights and insults. The two also discuss the #metoo, BLM, antiracism, and woke movements today in context of his psychological research.