Psychological research

This is an audio version of Astral Codex X, Scott Alexander's Substack.

If you like it, subscribe at astralcodex10.substack.com. Commenters convinced me I made a subtle misstep in my framing of psychology research is mostly fine.

My framing emphasized that social priming studies had failed to replicate, but that many other subfields of psychology hadn't.

This naturally led commenters to point to failed replications in other subfields.

Freud was settled science in quotes for a long time.

Just that there's an intuitive distinction between the level of credence you should have in the existence of power posing versus the existence of Broca's area.

I compounded this error by calling the last post Psychology Research is Mostly Fine, which suggested I was talking about the new research rather than the settled science.

I actually meant to distinguish between research psychology the field versus clinical psychology, aka therapy, but this framing unintentionally pushed against the point I wanted to make.

Introduction to Psychology 2.

Psychological Research 3.

Biopsychology 4.

States of Consciousness 5.