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		9wzYQbTYsAIc on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Predictors of mental health in employed adults wit... Something extremely important to keep in mind is that, with psychological studies, many things that people assume as obvious are completely wrong after a study demonstrates it and other things, that people would never guess, seem completely obvious after a study demonstrates it.

vanderZwan on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

This is true for any scientific field. That's kind of the point: to do research to remove as many assumptions as possible.

9wzYQbTYsAIc on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

It applies double so to popular psychology. The key is that obviousness is often a post-hoc illusion.

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