“They recruited 650 or so Canucks and Yanks to participate in their study. They showed some participants images of artwork that supposedly encouraged analytical thinking like Rodins statue, The Thinker.”
So - if I am shown by a Muslim acadmeic psychologist, pictures of MadMo boinking Aisha I will believe pedop[hilia is an Allah inspired activity?
As usual, the PsychPerson confuses correlation with causality.
Papers like this one, by academics such as this author, are just one of the many reasons for the low public opinoin of the “soft sciences”.