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I think that is quite harsh on Kahneman, especially considering how reasonable he sounds in the open letter that is linked. But I am also completely perplexed as to how he was so confident about these priming studies given the research on cognitive biases that he's so well-known for (as mentioned in the article).

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A great deal of his fame is premised on this priming effect. It’s been taken almost as gospel for decades, to the point that a typical applied psychology paper will actually include a priming step even if unnecessary just to spruce up the methodology. E.g. “subjects were primed by having them read articles on spicy food” for a study on water fountains, etc.

Oh, wow. Is any of his research still taken seriously? For whatever reason, I was under the impression his work on researcher bias like "the law of small numbers" was quite influential and still cited here and there by trustworthy figures.

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