Nudge The lying psychologist who fooled the world
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Jul 22, 2024 Discussion about a psychologist who deceived the world with fabricated data, racist views, and manipulated studies. Exploration of the impact of small sample sizes and fake experiments on trust. Insight into how biases are exploited by con artists and manipulators to control others.
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Stapel’s Fake Priming Breakthroughs
- Diederik Stapel rose at Tilburg with striking priming studies about dirt, boxes, fish smell and warm coffee.
- He never ran those experiments and fabricated the data across many papers.
Priming Is Real But Overclaimed
- Priming is a real psychological effect that can activate related concepts unconsciously.
- Simple cues often bias what people recall or think about next.
Utrecht Station Study Was Invented
- Stapel's famous Utrecht train-station study claimed litter made commuters sit further from a Black person.
- The seats he described didn't exist and the experiment was never run.