An engrossing account of both outright fraud and incredibly poor science in behavioural psychology over the last few decades. (Remember “power poses”? People on literally higher ground are more “prosocial”? Clairvoyant detection of erotic images ... ?)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie
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