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Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
Dorothy Bishop talks with APS’s Ludmila Nunes about the metascience of fraud detection, industrial-scale fraud and why it is urgent to tackle the fake-article factories known as “paper mills.”
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‘Spell-Checker for Statistics’ Reduces Errors in the Psychology Literature
A free-to-use tool designed to detect statistical errors is significantly reducing the number of mistakes creeping into papers, suggests a study published this January1. First described in a 2015 publication2, statcheck is an online tool
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Kid-Edited Journal Pushes Scientists for Clear Writing on Complex Topics
The reviewer was not impressed with the paper written by Israeli brain researcher Idan Segev and a colleague from Switzerland. “Professor Idan,” she wrote to Segev. “I didn’t understand anything that you said.” Segev and
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Failure and Flourishing: Three Lessons From Psychological Science
Why not make our setbacks more visible? An excerpt from How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind, the newest book by psychological scientist David G. Myers.
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P is for Problem, Publish, and Psychology: Multilingual Scholars and the Challenges of Publishing in English
Two Filipina researchers advocate for broader representation in academic psychology and outline considerations for others whose first language is not English.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on anger, attentional control in PTSD, factors on psychopathology, perception in schizophrenia and autism, publication of research with minoritized groups, well-being and cognition, perseverative thought, and adolescents’ technology use.
