PSYC 180 Lecture Notes - Iatrogenesis, Premotor Cortex, Opportunity Cost
8 May 2012
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Rasputin effect: somehow, questionable claims tend to live on despite overwhelming negative evidence. Hypnosis not a zombie-like trance state, not dangerous, people don"t lose control of themselves. Little scientific evidence to believe people have multiple indwelling selves separated by amnesic barriers and created in response to trauma. Goals of scientific enterprise and media differ. Media: tell a good story with vivid, memorable, often sensational examples; play to people"s emotions; incorporate popular beliefs with little or no scientific support. Personal advice articulated in the language of emotion. Expertise heuristic we place particular trust in people who describe themselves as experts. Advice industry fosters the idea that anything goes in psychology and medicine. Science: incorrect claims tend to be weeded out eventually. In media, incorrect claims often persist because failures to replicate not newsworthy, often not recorded. Non-science: claims that are largely devoid of research support. Non-sciences masquerading as science; are intellectual imposters of science.
