Pith Number

pith:NHOPGWEL

pith:2014:NHOPGWEL4NQFWP35R454JJSZXL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Positive psychology and romantic scientism: Reply to comments on Brown, Sokal, & Friedman (2013)

Alan D. Sokal, Harris L. Friedman, Nicholas J.L. Brown

arxiv:1409.5172 v1 · 2014-09-18 · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NHOPGWEL4NQFWP35R454JJSZXL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:42:30.722372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69dcf3588be3605b3f7d8f3bc4a659bafbd00d2c04604df6cad08e0ceb8ae969

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5172 · arxiv_version: 1409.5172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5172 · pith_short_12: NHOPGWEL4NQF · pith_short_16: NHOPGWEL4NQFWP35 · pith_short_8: NHOPGWEL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NHOPGWEL4NQFWP35R454JJSZXL \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 69dcf3588be3605b3f7d8f3bc4a659bafbd00d2c04604df6cad08e0ceb8ae969

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81caa95f341b5d0f67ea42ba46dd722078aba1415e80590c8d42406ce0d9e98f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-18T01:39:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dba893e8586f13cb75f3f2e00847741d853959e0e213a8ee84db08e2543df464"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}