Stewie Griffin, United Airlines & Abortion
I received a barrage of angry replies to my comment, recently, accusing me of supporting the violent airport security team commissioned with the defen...
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The modern market economy is a complex yet remarkably effective
mechanism in which resources are organised and distributed. Historically, an
unimpeded system of autonomous individuals acting in a...
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This paper concerns both
archaeology and modernity; but primarily it concerns modernity. A simple
interpretation is made of the symbolic significance of a particular
Palaeolithic female figure. And...
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The primary purpose of this paper is to provoke
controversy, and then a kind of crisis: the intention being to leave a certain
paradox of human behaviour standing all too painfully in need of
expla...
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Evolutionary psychology suggests that women and
men differ in their mating strategies. We operationalized a central claim of
evolutionary psychology by manipulating social status of profiles at a d...
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The Reproducibility Project: Psychology (OSC, 2015) was a huge effort by many different psychologists across the world to try and assess whether the effects of a selection of papers could be repli...
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The article by Kane, Conway, Miura, and Colflesh
(2007), on the n-back as a test of working memory, began its life as a full
length manuscript. It was ultimately published, however, as a short re...
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Picture the following scenario; an undergraduate research course,
in which a group of students are tasked with setting up and running an
experiment based on a paper from the research literature. Th...
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The Same Thing Over and Over
Again
When scientists fail to reproduce the results of multiple
experiments the support previously provided for theories breaks down. This is a
modern phenomenon in sc...
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Abstract
Disgust, one of
the six universally recognized emotions, plays an indispensible role in disease
avoidance and morality. While previous studies have demonstrated its
evolutionary significa...
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In this essay the requirements for a perfectly
replicable study are described as well as the active initiatives which promote
the open practices for data and materials availability
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The field of
psychological science is in a pandemonium. With failures to replicate
well-established effects, evidence for a skewed picture of science in the
published literature, and a media hype a...
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