Imagine you really wanted something and all you had to do was ask the universe and you would get it. That’d be awesome, right?! I present this to my students in my first-year Research Methods in Psychology course, in the first session of the semester. Then I ask them what they think. The first respondent is usually bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. They say something like: “Absolutely! You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it!” Emboldened, a handful of others express similar sentiments. Naturally, there are also sceptical students, but at this point it doesn’t suit my agenda to…
