Cognitive pollution - ideas which are so attractive that we want them to be true when they are not. Also known as Normative Sociology.
Early in my career I read up on the Kübler-Ross model of grief as an issue related to working with high performance teams. I soon discovered that, much like the vaunted Myers-Brigg tests, it was conjured from thin air with no empirical basis. Yet, decades later, we still hear people describe the five stages of grief.
At Language Log, I came across this pleasantly meta mocking of Kübler-Ross.
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good noticing! top 100 worst psych theories should include Maslow's hierarchy of needs, all of Freud, & anything in psych OTHER than psychometrics!
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