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Replication Problems in Psychology: Crisis, Tempest in a Teapot, or Opportunity?

An assessment of the field

October 30, 2015 • by Jeremy Safran

In late August 2015 an article appeared in the New York Times with a loaded headline: Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says. The article reported on a recent publication in the journal Science, which raised ...

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Just a Peaceful Quartet?

Reasons for celebrating the Tunisian Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2015 • by Benoit Challand

The news has just been released: The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” This news is cause for rejoicing given the symbolic ...

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