# Ep 261: Which of These Scientific Terms Are You Using Incorrectly?

An episode of [Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/215516451), 11 Jul 2016, 27 min.

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Do you think you're using the words "control group" correctly? You're probably not. In fact, you're probably also getting these terms wrong as well: "truth serum", "lie detector", "bystander apathy", "personality type", Oxytocin, "closure" and even the "scientific method"! In this episode I review some of the points made by Scott Lilienfeld and his colleagues regarding scientific terms that you're probably using incorrectly.

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