For about 12 years, I was a French horn player in Barcelona. At 28, I went back to school and got my bachelor's degree through distance learning. Then, I became a behavioral scientist. First, I got my master's in economics. For my Ph.D., I focused on public policy analysis and human behavior, learning what makes people tick. I thought: "Where's this stuff been my whole life?"
In the rapidly evolving landscape of social psychology, findings that initially seem groundbreaking may lead to significant setbacks, as evidenced by the failure to replicate key priming results.