Since this (now ten years old) post was written, psychology underwent a replication crisis, and priming has become something of a poster child for “things that sounded cool but failed to replicate”.
Semi-relatedly, we on the Less Wrong team have been playing with a recommendation engine which suggests old posts, and it recommended this to me. Since this post didn’t age well, I’m setting the “exclude from recommendations” flag on it.
Since this (now ten years old) post was written, psychology underwent a replication crisis, and priming has become something of a poster child for “things that sounded cool but failed to replicate”.
Semi-relatedly, we on the Less Wrong team have been playing with a recommendation engine which suggests old posts, and it recommended this to me. Since this post didn’t age well, I’m setting the “exclude from recommendations” flag on it.