School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2013 Aug;20(4):720-5. doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0391-6.
The persuasive power of brain images has captivated scholars in many disciplines. Like others, we too were intrigued by the finding that a brain image makes accompanying information more credible (McCabe & Castel in Cognition 107:343-352, 2008). But when our attempts to build on this effect failed, we instead ran a series of systematic replications of the original study-comprising 10 experiments and nearly 2,000 subjects. When we combined the original data with ours in a meta-analysis, we arrived at a more precise estimate of the effect, determining that a brain image exerted little to no influence. The persistent meme of the influential brain image should be viewed with a critical eye.
大脑图像的说服力吸引了许多学科的学者。和其他人一样，我们也对这样的发现感到好奇，即大脑图像会使随之而来的信息更可信（McCabe 和 Castel 在《认知》杂志第 107 卷第 343-352 页，2008 年）。但是，当我们试图利用这种效果时却失败了，因此我们转而对原始研究进行了一系列系统的重复实验——包括 10 个实验和近 2000 名受试者。当我们在荟萃分析中结合原始数据和我们的数据时，我们对该效果的估计更加准确，确定大脑图像几乎没有影响。具有影响力的大脑图像的持久观点应该用批判的眼光来看待。
