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MBCooktoday at 8:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Even if it isn’t true, it’s got the feeling of truthiness (1).

I don’t expect it to ever go out of the public consciousness. Like other things that were never real like Stockholm Syndrome I suspect it’s just stuck in the zeitgeist now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness


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IshKebabtoday at 8:58 PM

Power poses, imposter syndrome, Stanford prison experiment, marshmallow test...

It seems like the overlap between "real psychological effect" and "subtle enough that it requires research to discover" is vanishingly small. I guess that's not really surprising.