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They want attention for themselves. They want to promote their theory and their brand. And it's also kind of a survival thing to stay in academia, to be able to continue to do the research you need to have successes. And those successes often mean selling your work and sometimes overselling your work. We want to be taken seriously as scientists and be scientific.

They want attention for themselves. They want to promote their theory and their brand. And it's also kind of a survival thing to stay in academia, to be able to continue to do the research you need to have successes. And those successes often mean selling your work and sometimes overselling your work. We want to be taken seriously as scientists and be scientific.

And that means being calibrated and careful and not exaggerating. But at the same time, the people who do exaggerate are probably going to get more of those successes that get them attention, get them a seat at the table, get them the next grant, the next job and so on.

And that means being calibrated and careful and not exaggerating. But at the same time, the people who do exaggerate are probably going to get more of those successes that get them attention, get them a seat at the table, get them the next grant, the next job and so on.

And that means being calibrated and careful and not exaggerating. But at the same time, the people who do exaggerate are probably going to get more of those successes that get them attention, get them a seat at the table, get them the next grant, the next job and so on.

Yeah. So if you were just a rational agent acting in the most self-interested way possible as a researcher in academia, I think you would cheat. I think that is absolutely the way the incentives are set up. I don't think most people do, but not because of the incentives.

Yeah. So if you were just a rational agent acting in the most self-interested way possible as a researcher in academia, I think you would cheat. I think that is absolutely the way the incentives are set up. I don't think most people do, but not because of the incentives.

Yeah. So if you were just a rational agent acting in the most self-interested way possible as a researcher in academia, I think you would cheat. I think that is absolutely the way the incentives are set up. I don't think most people do, but not because of the incentives.

I think that maybe that's appropriate for fields like psychology where we're tackling really messy, complicated things that are multiply determined, that have many causes. It's hard to measure even one of the causes. And so I think if you hear a claim that sounds too good to be true or sounds too simplistic, I think it's appropriate to use common sense to be skeptical of it.

I think that maybe that's appropriate for fields like psychology where we're tackling really messy, complicated things that are multiply determined, that have many causes. It's hard to measure even one of the causes. And so I think if you hear a claim that sounds too good to be true or sounds too simplistic, I think it's appropriate to use common sense to be skeptical of it.

I think that maybe that's appropriate for fields like psychology where we're tackling really messy, complicated things that are multiply determined, that have many causes. It's hard to measure even one of the causes. And so I think if you hear a claim that sounds too good to be true or sounds too simplistic, I think it's appropriate to use common sense to be skeptical of it.

Generally, I think we're taught that science can overturn common sense and you shouldn't just not believe science just because your common sense goes against it. But I think that should be different for different sciences. And psychology, psychology is just a lot harder to do. And it's a relatively young science.

Generally, I think we're taught that science can overturn common sense and you shouldn't just not believe science just because your common sense goes against it. But I think that should be different for different sciences. And psychology, psychology is just a lot harder to do. And it's a relatively young science.

Generally, I think we're taught that science can overturn common sense and you shouldn't just not believe science just because your common sense goes against it. But I think that should be different for different sciences. And psychology, psychology is just a lot harder to do. And it's a relatively young science.

We haven't perfected even the measurement of many of these concepts, much less all the other steps to studying them.

We haven't perfected even the measurement of many of these concepts, much less all the other steps to studying them.

We haven't perfected even the measurement of many of these concepts, much less all the other steps to studying them.

I do.

I do.

I do.