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Mark Meechan recorded the dog reacting to statements such as "Sieg Heil" by raising its paw.

No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias

The era of simple, eye-catching stories about people’s psychology is over. After all, how likely was it that something like human rationality was ever going to be straightforward?

A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast.

Many of the responses to Covid-19 come from a deeply-flawed discipline

We’re told the internet destroys children’s mental health - but Stuart Ritchie read all the relevant studies and saw little to support the claim

Nature Human Behaviour - New ethics guidance addresses potential harms for human population groups who do not participate in research but may be harmed by its publication.

There was no defending that appalling "autoethnography" paper on masturbation. But a lot of academics defended it anyway

Early in 2020 as the pandemic began to surge around the world, Asia and the West were divided on whether people should wear facemasks to try and stop/slow transmission of the new virus. In short,...

An infectious disease expert says people shouldn't just try to avoid getting coronavirus - instead, they should act as though they already have the virus and...

Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein attempt to show how human nature is at odds with modern society, but their science, and style, grates

In this extract from his new book, Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 14 years, calls for a new approach

Nature Communications - Cognitive function is associated with health and important life outcomes. Here, the authors perform a genome-wide association study for general cognitive function in 300,486...

There's little new evidence in his latest book

The UK has very strict laws on infant formula - but the research on feeding babies doesn't back them up

Empirical audit and review is an approach to assessing the evidentiary value of a research area. It involves identifying a topic and selecting a cr...

This is the introduction to a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. In 2021, we and a team of...

The broadcaster’s disinformation and social media correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories. In return she is abused, slandered, threatened. She talks about...