It turned out that rats that live in a nice environment, with plenty of activities and social spaces (not an ugly, mostly empty cage), don’t become addicted
Ref: Rat Park experiment
It's fitting for this thread though, because it survives for the exact reason the alpha wolf stuff survives: people love the story so they hang on to it irrespective of the science.
The first two units on neurology and cognition seem sensible, but I can see how it’ll quickly go off the rails after that.
> never replicated
Wiki says:
Studies that followed up on the contribution of environmental enrichment to addiction produced mixed results.
Did someone try to replicate it? What were the results? What were their conclusions about its credibility?
> all the other stuff in social psych which hasn't survived the replication crisis.
Replication isn't black and white: Most of the experiments - at least in the early widely reported phase - did replicate but with less statistically strong results.