What is an example of extremely good science in psychology? What's a result we can hold up to scrutiny and believe truthfully with conviction?
Anyways, though, I'm not sure it's super useful to "believe with conviction" in science. Shouldn't we hold all results up to scrutiny, and weigh them on the evidence?
Along these lines, by far the most important takeaway from the last 50 years of academic psychology, imho, is that we are usually far too willing to trust our own personal judgment. The brain is as much a self-deception engine as it is a reasoning machine. We have a far hazier view of what actually goes on in our minds than we usually think we do.