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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On the whole, results from psychology research studies don’t support a direct connection between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior.
Conservatives have long tried to attack regulators such as the EPA with “weaponized transparency”. Coupled with the inflation of uncertainty, the intent is to make regulations impossible.
For years, there have been questions about research showing connections between playing violent video games and aggressive behavior.
Scientists are rewarded with funding and publications when they come up with innovative findings. But in the midst of a ‘reproducibility crisis,’ being new isn’t the only thing to value about research.
We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
A team of archaeologists strived to improve the reproducibility of their results, influencing their choices in the field, in the lab and during data analysis.
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Open Evidence Research, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Department Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois Chicago
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Professor of Psychology, University of Bamberg
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University