Canonical psychology findings circulate with their critiques rarely taught

Evidence

This finding was so shocking that it has populated psychology textbooks for decades. In fact, when I interview students for admission to Cambridge, it’s still one of the key experiments they will bring up for discussion. Curiously though, they often don’t seem aware of the critiques. — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 126

Categorization

• SEED: Seed for an essay on how textbook canons manufacture apparent consensus — parallel to my moral-panics article on how media frames get reproduced without scrutiny.
• XREF: connects to: Asch conformity findings are exaggerated in psychology textbooks — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 126

Broader Connections

• Asch conformity findings are exaggerated in psychology textbooks #exemplifies (0.85) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 126