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.
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.
> never replicated
Wiki says:
Studies that followed up on the contribution of environmental enrichment to addiction produced mixed results.