Textbooks make claims like this: "studies have shown that participants subliminally primed with a word (e.g., ‘beach’) will more quickly recognise words semantically related to it (e.g., ‘sand’), even though they never consciously registered the prime." Why should you believe such a claim.

Marcel, A. J. (1983). Conscious and unconscious perception: Experiments on visual masking and word recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 15, 197–237.

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Textbooks make claims like this: "people tend to perceive desirable objects as being closer to them than less desirable ones" What's the evidence for this? A look at: Balcetis and Dunning (2010) Wishful Seeing: More Desired Objects are Seen as Closer Psychological Science 21: 147-152

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What evidence supports the claims made in textbook chapters on biopsychology? A Look at: “Neuroendocrine dysregulation following early social deprivation in children” by Alison B. Wismer Fries, Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, and Seth D. Pollak. Published in Developmental Psychobiology 2008 50(6): 588–599.

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