Experimenter’s Appearance: “Imagine conducting a terror management experiment in which half of the participants are randomly assigned to think about death, but your experimenter wears a death-metal t-shirt and thus places everyone in a mortality salience condition.”

“It is incredibly difficult to falsify theories, especially broad theories like cognitive dissonance theory. Such a theory has been tested in multiple ways, and one non-replication of a single experiment does not mean the theory, or all other examples of the effect, are wrong.” #SocialPsyc 🧪