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Social science and experimental psychology are still shaking from the “replication crisis”, an embarrassing decade which revealed that the results of many classic studies couldn’t be reproduced when the experiments were repeated. Now research adds to this embarrassment by suggesting a simple solution to the problem – common sense.
There have been many eye-catching, high-profile studies that haven’t been replicated, and we now know that eating from small plates doesn’t really make you eat less, and that children who can resist marshmallows don’t reliably become successful adults.
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