False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant (Joseph P. Simmons & Leif D. Nelson) | Paper: "First, we show that despite empirical psychologists’ nominal endorsement of a low rate of false-positive findings (≤ .05),...
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There are few names in psychology more well-known than B. F. Skinner. First-year psychology students scribble endless lecture notes on him. Doctoral candidatescite his workin their dissertations as they test whether a rat’s behavior can be used to predict behavior in humans. Skinner is one ...
Another study, conducted by psychology professor Keith Simonton at the University of California Davis, shows that most famous scientific 5 are risk-takers. Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton all dared to chase ideas that were 6 the mainstream ideas of their times. The willingness to...
While strengths psychology has largely stayed within the limit of academic journals or has been applied only within certain contexts such as the workplace, research on narcissism has made its way into the mass media and into our collective consciousness. The New York Times noted that narcissism ...
“There’s this story that we’ve had in the literature that the brain regions that predict fear are things like the amygdala, or the orbital frontal cortex area, or the brainstem,” said Ajay Satpute, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University. “Those are thought to be...
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This is probably one of the best pieces of advice ever. Don’t worry if you are not very good at writing. Practice makes perfect. The more you experiment with various topics for persuasive speech, the better writer you will become. You can also call one of your friends and let them pla...
完形填空Take Heart, and Take Risks We carried out an interesting social experiment. The participants were asked to choose between two 1 : throw a coin to win one billion dollars if the coin happens to land on heads, or get a 10-million-dollar cheque without even throwing the coin.Our pur...
There is still a more interesting and satisfactory mode of performing the experiment: it is to divide the spinal marrow between the nerves of the superior and inferior extremities. We have then two modes of animal life : the first being the assemblage of the voluntary and respiratory powers ...