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Great quiz! I got 14/15 right. Pretty easy to tell I thought - it seems like all the bullshit ones are "people who do done activity then behave differently when doing some completely unrelated task". Do psychologists dream up interesting self-help style headlines and then try and prove them? "Spending 5 minutes a day thinking about sex could make you live 10 years longer!"


Yeah, they’re all priming studies. Afaik that was hot shit for a while but has been mostly discredited. See “power poses” for a dumb way it trickled into pop culture.




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