Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming Research

by Ruth Leys

A history of "priming" research that analyzes the field's underlying assumptions and experimental protocols to shed new light on a contemporary crisis in social psychology.

In 2012, a team of Belgian scientists reported that they had been unable to replicate a canonical experiment in the field of psychology known as "priming." The original experiment, performed by John Bargh in the nineties, had purported to show that words connoting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226836959
• ISBN13: 9780226836959
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages