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The best experiment against this method tested ten-year-olds. The meta-analysis for it says the effect reverses at that age. Neither side cites the other on it.

The man who ran the first experiment and named the effect was not Tolman. There were four groups, not three. And the finding never did break behaviourism.

A 2006 meta-analysis said if-then plans double your chances. In 2025 the same researchers pooled 642 tests and found the headline number inflated.

In the experiments that made this finding famous the friends were in another room and could not speak to the teenager at all. The risk taking went up anyway.

Festinger said people prefer an objective standard and compare themselves to others only when none exists. A curve removes it. That is the problem.

Every explainer tells you unpredictable rewards are stickier. None says why, because psychology has argued about that since 1939 and has not stopped.

Every confident number you have read about impostor syndrome is an artefact of which questionnaire somebody used and where they drew the line.

A teacher's expectation moves a child most in the first days of term and almost not at all by the end of the month. That timing is the finding nobody quotes.

Asch called it a study of independence. Most of his participants stayed independent under pressure, and the textbooks quietly dropped that half.