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- 1From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedFor a very long time in the COVID-19 crisis, behavioural change leading to physical distancing behaviour was the only tool at our disposal to mitigate virus spread. In this large-scale naturalistic experimental study we...
- 2From:Experimental Brain Research (Vol. 239, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMotor learning encompasses a broad set of phenomena that requires a diverse set of experimental paradigms. However, excessive variation in tasks across studies creates fragmentation that can adversely affect the...
- 3From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe term "retroactive avoidance" refers to a special class of effects of future stimulus presentations on past behavioral responses. Specifically, it refers to the anticipatory avoidance of aversive stimuli that were...
- 4From:South African Journal of Industrial Psychology (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, psychology has been going through a crisis of sorts. Research methods and practices have come under increased scrutiny, with many issues identified as negatively contributing to low replicability and...
- 5From:Collabra: Psychology (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBelief system structure can be investigated by estimating belief systems as networks of interacting political attitudes, but we do not know if these estimates are replicable. In a sample of 31 countries from the World...
- 6From:Academic Questions (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): John Staddon 1 Author Affiliations: (Aff1) 0000 0004 1936 7961, grid.26009.3d, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, , Durham, NC, USA Ever since the 2005 publication of a landmark...
- 7From:Collabra: Psychology (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Jordan R. Wagge (corresponding author) [1]; Cristina Baciu [2]; Kasia Banas [3]; Joel T. Nadler [4]; Sascha Schwarz [5]; Yanna Weisberg [6]; Hans IJzerman [7]; Nicole Legate [2]; Jon Grahe [8] The...
- 8From:North American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedResearch has indicated that self-selection bias serves as a threat to external validity when the title of an experiment directly influences the dependent variables being measured. The goal of the current study was to...
- 9From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 65, Issue 3)THE MIC is passed and the psychologists rise, one by one, to explain why they're here. Some reasons are kind of funny ("I'm here because it was better than sitting in my office and swearing"); others are heartfelt ("I'm...
- 10From:The Journal of Parapsychology (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this article is to describe an attempt to replicate the phenomenon of alleged bodily magnetism as described in a book by the leading figure of Czechoslovak parapsychology Bretislav Kafka (1891 -1967)....
- 11From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5980)In his first State of the Union address, in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt said: "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which...
- 12From:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 118, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 1898, Norman Triplett published was has been called the first experiment in social psychology and sports psychology. Claiming to demonstrate "the dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition," this oft-cited...
- 13From:American Journal of Psychology (Vol. 125, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA time series of nocturnal emissions was presented in The American Journal of Psychology in 1904. The anonymous author of this remarkable article provided the time series to support his contention that his nocturnal...
- 14From:Nature (Vol. 528, Issue 7583) Peer-ReviewedHoward Wiseman (Nature 526, 649-650; 2015) The world is made up of real stuff, existing in space and changing only through local interactions. Quantum mechanics implies that this intuitive local-realism hypothesis is...
- 15From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 32)For the past seven years, Aaron R. Krochmal, an associate professor of biology at Washington College, has been trying to pinpoint how a population of turtles near the Maryland campus manages to navigate migration...
- 16From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 263)The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn't. Last summer, the Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experiments sampled from three of the...
- 17From:PLoS Biology (Vol. 5, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe evolution of cooperation among nonrelatives has been explained by direct, indirect, and strong reciprocity. Animals should base the decision to help others on expected future help, which they may judge from past...
- 18From:Journal of Behavioral Education (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBrief experimental analyses of reading fluency are useful for identifying effective interventions for improving reading fluency. The current study extends previous research by conducting an exploratory evaluation of...
- 19From:PLoS Biology (Vol. 5, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedPeople often act on behalf of others. They do so without immediate personal gain, at cost to themselves, and even toward unfamiliar individuals. Many researchers have claimed that such altruism emanates from a...
- 20From:Learning Disability Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. This experimental/comparison study of secondary-level, small-group instruction included 318 first- and second-grade students (170 ELL and 148 English-only) from six elementary schools. All schools served high...