Why this archive

Psychology likes to tell its own history as a heroic saga: great names, great experiments, great truths. The files say something else.

This archive lays the two side by side — the legend and the state of the evidence. Every file names its sources, every study its replication status. What does not hold up is not quietly sorted out, but shown as what it is: part of the history.

The texts are written with the support of AI and edited against the sources cited. Errors rest with the archivist.