I received a barrage of angry replies to my comment, recently, accusing me of supporting the violent airport security team commissioned with the defenestration of a United Airlines passenger. For t...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItThis 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItEvolutionary 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItPicture 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...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItAbstract 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...
Read ItIn 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
Read ItThe 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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