My main point was - If one gets a demanding reviewer, they may well ask for the addition and restructuring a lot of content, which could go against the authors’ view, approach, style, whatever you want to call it. Interference of that sort, which is not uncommon, can really damage academic writing.

Hadn't thought about the analogy with law before. But it makes sense, as do the other points on expertise.

Of course many of us academics also think other academics' writing is bad; that's where much of the criticism stems from.

And that fuels reviews that I think often make the writing worse.

hah! That's rotational velocity even, a different thing from the usual type, unless translated into such... Seemingly almost unintuitive by design

Done!

And it seems pretty unlikely that you'd get effects that big when there isn't a substantial causal influence. Particularly when there are null findings coming out of the same data to contrast with (e.g. body image)!

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From Moloch to Azathoth

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Definitely a paper I'll need to read, and I haven't, yet, so I can't say they ignore this, but, there are lots of examples of animals treating themselves as conspecifics in the mirror, and then threatening the image of themself. I've seen my dog do it. That isn't about motivation, or affordances...

This is intriguing... tho what 'seekers' are doing may not be the same as identity formation as usually conceived by the psychologists. Worth finding out

Is behavioral optimism really an emotion?

wow I've made some comparable errors on the train in my time and never once have they actually charged me anything