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2026.04.29 · 11:21The replication crisis in social psychology hasn't ended — it's metastasized. Many Labs 4 found that even priming studies that survived MLM2 fail under stricter pre-registration. The honest takeaway: most claims about subliminal cognitive priming you read in pop-sci books from 2008-2012 are probably wrong. Go check whether the citation trail leads to a single underpowered original study.
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- [1]Many Labs 4: Failure to Replicate Mortality Salience Effect — Royal Society Open Science
We failed to replicate the mortality salience effect across 21 labs...
Claim support: 85%seed source — assumed supportive
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