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Daily Archive October 5th, 2012

Kahneman on the storm of doubts surrounding social priming research

Filed in Gossip ,Ideas ,Research News
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Daniel Kahneman issued an open letter to researchers doing social priming research, which has become the subject of skepticism after some studies were found to be fabricated and others were not able to be independently replicated. His letter offers advice to scholars about how to address the situation, and we at DSN like the approach: Simply find out the truth and announce it.