THE DUCHENNE SMILE / FACIAL FEEDBACK HYPOTHESIS Yeah, the pun is obvious. Make it in your own head.https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/09/01/no-reason-to-smile-another-modern-psychology-classic-has-failed-to-replicate/ …
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NEWBORNS CAN IMITATE ... yeaaaaaaaah no they can't.https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/05/20/a-classic-finding-about-newborn-babies-imitation-skills-is-probably-wrong/ …
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LOTS OF THINGS ABOUT OXYTOCIN You can't trust the trust hormone. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26991328
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Oh yes, THE BLOCKING EFFECT That had all sorts of problems.https://www.nature.com/news/psychologists-fail-to-replicate-well-known-behaviour-linked-to-learning-1.20659 …
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And how's STEREOTYPE THREAT doing these days? I can't actually remember what happened on this one. One of you social psych goons can fill us all in, when you're not busy excluding pesky outliers or strangling the postman.https://medium.com/@davenuss79/the-replicability-issue-and-stereotype-threat-research-a988d6f8b080 …
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And we can't forget Ekman's UNIVERSAL FACIAL EMOTION Man, this one is really popular. But it's seriously taking on water.https://www.popsci.com/article/science/facial-expressions-arent-universal-we-thought#page-2 …
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And I might as well put Bem's MAGIC THINKYTIME WITCHDOCTOR BUSINESS here because that was technically a study, and
@StuartJRitchie technically replicated it. I think.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/mar/15/precognition-studies-curse-failed-replications …2 replies 1 retweet 24 likesShow this thread -
I bet
@BrianNosek and co could think of more. These are mostly off the top of my head, and everyone's definition of 'classic' will be a bit different. Point is, I learned about all the above as an undergrad, and that's partly why I became a physiologist.5 replies 0 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
Ya boi
@PaulMinda1 reminds me of the BILINGUAL ADVANTAGE research, and of course the execrable MOZART EFFECT. Mozart is novel in that I was taught 15 years ago it was probably busted. Yet, it persists. It's the herpes of developmental research.4 replies 2 retweets 41 likesShow this thread -
I am further reminded of the following: GRIT LEARNING STYLES DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY I'll make some notes later if anyone gives a shit. These are three big ones.
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The fact that learning styles are false was actually correctly applied in a recent ‘scientific teaching’ workshop I attended. She unapologetically stated to a packed room that “everyone learns the same way.” Science is not lost on all!
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Replying to @NicoleBarbaro
Someone should have shaken their head and said "sorry, I don't understand these words, I'm a visual learner"
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Replying to @NicoleBarbaro @jamesheathers
There's more to come. These effects are slowly seeping from science into teacher training courses, where nobody cares about failed replications.
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