There continues to be too large of a magnet for psychological studies to “prove something interesting” so the study can become newsworthy. If that motivation comes into the picture, then there will obviously be some effect on the researcher’s work. Whether the magnitude is as serious as some studies have shown, the replication crisis in psychology is a clear problem. Of course there are many academics not focused on discovering a pop-psych finding, but the pop-psych urge can’t be helping the field as a whole.
Aside from the idea of ego depletion, it is clear that some people are able to include more future-thinking calculation in their decision-making than others, but it’s not clear that someone can improve this attribute.
There continues to be too large of a magnet for psychological studies to “prove something interesting” so the study can become newsworthy. If that motivation comes into the picture, then there will obviously be some effect on the researcher’s work. Whether the magnitude is as serious as some studies have shown, the replication crisis in psychology is a clear problem. Of course there are many academics not focused on discovering a pop-psych finding, but the pop-psych urge can’t be helping the field as a whole.
Aside from the idea of ego depletion, it is clear that some people are able to include more future-thinking calculation in their decision-making than others, but it’s not clear that someone can improve this attribute.