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.
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Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it’s in.
Australia’s behavioral economics unit publishes rather than hides the results of its unsuccessful experiments.
Recent reports of dramatic declines in insect populations have sparked concern about an ‘insect apocalypse.’ But a new analysis of data from sites across North America suggests the case isn’t proven.
A new statistical test lets researchers search for similarities between groups. Could this help keep new important findings out of the file drawer?
Some claim that scientists avoid publishing results that go against the consensus on man-made climate change. But this is simply untrue.
We asked three experts for their takes.
Food, drug and other companies often sponsor research in the hope it might produce results favourable to their products. How can we ensure such research remains independent?
Editors of ten authoritative workplace journals amend their publishing criteria to address publication bias.
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State University
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Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor of Management & Social Impact, The University of Western Australia
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Chair professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Neuroscience, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
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Senior Lecturer in psychology, Keele University
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Professor, Lund University
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Elbert L. Fausett Distinguished Professor of Biology, Hendrix College
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Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bamberg
