There is NO "Macbeth effect"

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The crisis in psychology continues as another study fails to replicate.

See:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/11/1...finds-little-evidence-for-the-macbeth-effect/

"Perhaps no concept has been more important to social psychology in recent years — for good and ill — than “social priming”, or the idea, as the science writer Neuroskeptic once put it, that “subtle cues can exert large, unconscious influences on human behaviour.” This subgenre of research has produced a steady drumbeat of interesting findings, but unfortunately, an increasing number of them are failing to replicate – including modern classics, like the idea that exposure to ageing-related words makes you walk more slowly, or that thinking about money increases your selfishness.The so-called “Macbeth effect” is another classic example of social priming that gained mainstream recognition and acceptance from psychologists and laypeople alike. The term was first introduced by the psychologists Chen-Bo Zhong and Katie Liljenquist, who reported in a 2006 paper in Science that “a threat to one’s moral purity induces the need to cleanse oneself”."


 
Psychologists are priests; and there is nothing wrong with that, but that is how they should present themselves, and not as scientists.
 

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