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    1. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 17 May 2019
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      Mortality salience, aka terror management, one of he cornerstone theories of social psychology, runs aground in sophisticated, pre-registered replication attempt. https://psyarxiv.com/dkg53/  Roy Baumeister sounding the death knell for the theory. https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/774872395660296192 …pic.twitter.com/T3Cc439b0d

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    2. Rachel Menzies‏ @RachelEMenzies 18 May 2019
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      It’s a big call to say a theory with 300+ studies supporting it has run aground because of 1 study with n=100... I’ve run 2 mortality salience studies in the last few years, both pre-registered and sufficiently powered, both found huge effects (1 halfway through recruitment now)

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    3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 19 May 2019
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      The bulk of the supporting studies were based on unconscious priming, which is now recognized as a pseudoscience, which played a major role in triggering the reproducibility crisis. Also the theoretical grounding is ultrathin.

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    4. Prof. Ross Menzies‏ @Ross_G_Menzies 19 May 2019
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      There are many studies with conscious priming that show the expected effects. I don’t agree that with your claim that the theoretical framework is thin. I do agree that studies need to be pre-registered but positive examples of these also exist.

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      Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 19 May 2019
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      Replying to @Ross_G_Menzies @RachelEMenzies

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      Michael Shermer has debunked the theory and its dependence on priming: https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/1129546035359932416 … And Daniel Kahneman has apologized for popularizing priming:https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/832484413602553856 …

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      Daniel Kahneman admits that he was wrong about "social priming" in his world bestseller "Thinking Fast and Slow". https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-train-wreck-how-priming-research-went-of-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 … pic.twitter.com/mBcIUDXJmp
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        1. Prof. Ross Menzies‏ @Ross_G_Menzies 19 May 2019
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          I think we’ll just need to agree to disagree @DegenRolf. I don’t agree that the theory is dead because of Shermer’s chapter. And I don’t believe that positive replicated findings, particularly in pre-registered studies, can be ignored.

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