Thinking, Fast and Slow
A surprising victim of the replication crisis. Only about 10% of the claims have been struck down, but that's a bad attrition rate for just 5 years.
Effects strongly promoted in this that have so far been strongly questioned by failed replication:
- The Florida effect (words connotating old age make you walk slower)
- Money priming (thinking about money makes you selfish)
- Cognitive disfluency and its purported system 2 benefits
- Ego depletion
- Hungry judges certainly don't give harsher sentences by two-standard-deviations.
- And anti-hot-hand views.
(I don't know what the general attrition rate of claims in nonfiction is, though. Another reason to disfavour books from immature sciences.)
It is a great book, wise and practical. It is just hard to tell what parts of it will not decay.
Effects strongly promoted in this that have so far been strongly questioned by failed replication:
- The Florida effect (words connotating old age make you walk slower)
- Money priming (thinking about money makes you selfish)
- Cognitive disfluency and its purported system 2 benefits
- Ego depletion
- Hungry judges certainly don't give harsher sentences by two-standard-deviations.
- And anti-hot-hand views.
(I don't know what the general attrition rate of claims in nonfiction is, though. Another reason to disfavour books from immature sciences.)
It is a great book, wise and practical. It is just hard to tell what parts of it will not decay.