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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…
Read MoreIN 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,…
Read MorePower Pose: The Glass is Half Full?
Recently, another sensational study from social psychology came under renewed criticism. The study, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance” , published in Psychological Science in 2010 by Dana Carney, Amy Cuddy, and Andy Yap claimed that adopting…
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