Emil O W Kirkegaard

There’s a famous result in psychology where grad students report that rats are better at mazes if the advisor tells them the rats are “maze bright” rather than “maze dull”.

Like most famous results in social psychology involving priming, it should be taken with a huge grain of salt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tryon's_Rat_Experiment#Rosenthal …

(I remember when I read that Rosenthal paper the first time. I rolled my eyes & said on IRC, 'wow, the first psychology replication crisis back in the 1960s really did invent everything first! Even "growth mindset"!')

Glad you saw this, gwern

Rosenthal has done more harm than almost any psychologist I can think of. I keep trying to write a review of his _Experimenter Expectancy Effects_ book and keep failing because I get too angry about his work and the whole replication crisis.