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For a while it was all the rage to adopt Wonder Woman’s famous stance and other body positions that allegedly pumped up your confidence – until more studies of the phenomenon failed to find the connection.
A meta-analysis of 437 studies found that egomaniacs aren’t just a bummer – they can be dangerous, too.
Common and cheap drugs save lives of patients critically ill with COVID-19, a new analysis shows. But these corticosteroids are not a cure.
Breathless press releases, over-interpreted meta-analyses and other ‘crud factors’ mean that weak research results can get overhyped to the public. It’s time for a cultural change in the social sciences.
Meta-analysis studies have made it possible to sort through apparently contradictory research by looking at the bigger picture.
A new analysis shows that coffee is associated with a host of positive health effects.
Researchers need to be able to draw conclusions based on previously published studies in their field. A new aggregation method synthesizes prior findings and may help reveal more of the big picture.
Studies can’t predict an individual’s behavior. But meta-analyses of social science research turn up differences in men’s versus women’s leadership styles, on average.
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Visiting associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Psychology; Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
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Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Research Faculty, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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PhD researcher and Specialist Registrar in Public Health, University of Southampton
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Professor of Ecology, Royal Holloway University of London
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Ph.D. in Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bamberg
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University
