> If you don't believe the research is solid, please post some convincing counter studies.

It sounds like you don't understand the reproducibility crisis: It's not up to me to produce counter studies, it's up to you to produce replications of the already published work, using the exact same methods and techniques.

So far, the reproducibility in the psychological sciences has been pretty poor. Nature summarized the original test a couple of years ago: 61 out of 100 replications failed in the test.

https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...