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February 21, 2013

Psychology Confronts a Glut of Invalid Research

Tia Ghose, Live Science


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In the wake of several scandals in psychology research, scientists are asking themselves just how much of their research is valid.

In the past 10 years, dozens of studies in the psychology field have been retracted, and several high-profile studies have not stood up to scrutiny when outside researchers tried to replicate the research.

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TAGGED: misconduct, reproducibility, bias, psychology

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