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Not So Sure Anymore About that Paper You Published? Maybe the Loss of Confidence Project Is For You.

[From the blog post, “Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.” by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, published at Undark] “IN SEPTEMBER 2016, the psychologist Dana Carney came forward with a confession: She no longer believed the findings of…

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IN THE NEWS: NY Times Magazine (October 18, 2017)

[From the article “When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy” by Susan Dominus at nytimes.com]  “As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly,…

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To Criticize? Or Not to Criticize? That is Not the Question

A very nice and balanced discussion of the issues involved in criticizing other researchers’ work on social media can be found in the article “How Should We Talk About Amy Cuddy, Death Threats, and the Replication Crisis?” by Jesse Singal…

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