On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:42:10 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
Some actually interesting psychological research (to me -- you will forgive
me
for finding too much of psychological research overly praised for being
highly
technical but intellectually trivial).
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/science/study-in-science-shows-end-of-history-illusion.html?hp&_r=0
Anyone find it ironic that research that says that people can't imagine
themselves changing in the future is published at the same time that
people make new year's resolutions for changing their future behavior?
By the way, there's a Wikipedia entry on New Year's resolutions; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_year%27s_resolution
Perhaps the researchers should have had a manipulation where the participant
is told "imagine that it is new year's day X years in the future -- how
likely are
you to change in the coming weeks and months?"
-Mike Palij
New York University
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