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Michael Inzlicht
Personal blog · michaelinzlicht.com/getting-bettersciencephilosophy
Michael Inzlicht's personal blog at michaelinzlicht.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Reckoning with the Past (2016)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Michael Inzlicht's posts on the replication crisis in psychology and his reckoning with stereotype threat research, plus papers hosted on his site. None judge the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reckoning with the Past (2016)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-29
What Hacker News says?
I find it odd that economists generally ignore the field of human psychology / behavior in their assessments. Psychology, especially social psychology, is an epistemological disaster area[1][2] and everyone would be better off ignoring its "findings", not just economists. [1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f... [2] http://michaelinzlicht.com/getting-better/2016/2/29/reckonin...
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on “Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition”Submitted Updating Beliefs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt is very well documented. In fact, it is the shining example of the replication crisis in psychology. Here's from Michael Inzlicht, one of the people who started stereotype threat research in the first place: > I edited an entire book on stereotype threat, I have signed my name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States citing stereotype threat, yet now I am not as certain as I once was about the…
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on “We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring”Submitted Reckoning with the Past (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, expectancy violation/mismatch is a reliable stressor down to the mesolimbic-corticostriatal level[1], so maybe that's that. In any case, thank you for re-enabling it. I'm sure many future readers would thank you too. [1] See for instance Box 2 in Proulx et al. 2012 ( http://www.michaelinzlicht.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/downloa... ).
Comment linking /wp/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/04/Proulx-Inzlicht-Harmon-Jones-2012.pdf
on “Eve Development Blog, from Light Table developers”Submitted Reckoning with the Past as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAuthor source: http://michaelinzlicht.com/publications/articles-chapters/20...
Comment linking /publications/articles-chapters/2024/6/18/fast-forward-to-boredom-how-switching-behaviour-on-digital-media-makes-people-more-bored-pdf
on “How Switching Behavior on Digital Media Makes People More Bored [pdf]”
