The Effectiveness of Psychology Courses at Disconfirming Common Psychological Myths
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The authors attempted to generalize Standing and Huber's (2003) findings concerning psychological myth-beliefs among Canadian students to a sample of Midwestern Americans, including university students (n = 171), junior college students (n = 79), and a local community sample (n = 45). Midwesterners' scores on the Huber Test were significantly lower than those of Canadians. In contrast to Standing and Huber's findings, myth acceptance was no higher for junior college than university students. Psychology courses taken and GPA were significant predictors of Huber test scores. Additionally, students were less susceptible to myth acceptance after having taken 10 or more psychology courses compared to those having taken 0 to 1 and 2 to 9 courses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".