With (20/20) hindsight, we should have had low prior beliefs in social psych priming studies that assume the mind is VERY badly designed (e.g. attitudes change if you change the way you move your head...) Better start with hypo's about what a bio system is designed to do...https://twitter.com/nicholaraihani/status/1004104377269923841 …
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Agree with your overall approach, but temporary attitude shifts don’t show bad design (assuming behavior is not fluctuating wildly). Sensitivity to environmental and personal conditions can be the mark of a *well* designed system.
Yes. Fair point. Confirms that people should have worked more on the model (what's our hypo about the mind? when would attitude change be functional) rather than on clever parlor tricks (hold a pencil on upper lip --> frown --> neg attitude....) that dont even replicate.
