Age of Invention: Does History have a Replication Crisis?

You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation. This edition went out to over 22,000 subscribers. To support my work, you can upgrade your subscription here:Subscribe nowBack in 2011, the field of psychology went into crisis. Some of the most famous and widely-cited experimental results — like the finding that powerfully posing for a few minutes gives you a hormonal boost in confidence, or that priming people with w...