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Hovering Questions : Are Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch Evidence-Based Practices?
(2017-11-27)
Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary energy based
treatments. They are based on the premise that (1) illness is a
result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...
"It's Your Turn, Whether You Want to or Not" : Men's and Women's Household Task Distribution Preferences
(2018-01-17)
To investigate gender differences in activity preferences in a sample without lifetime constraints, we asked young men and women to report their foreseen enjoyment of various household and childcare tasks. We predict that ...
Romantically Involved or Just Friends? : Accuracy and Consensus in Judgments of Male-Female Dyads
(2018-03-12)
A unique challenge for opposite-sex friends is convincing others of the platonic nature of their relationship. One reason for this challenge may be that opposite-sex friendships are often not clearly platonic. Male-female ...
Do Researchers Practice What They Preach? Unjustified Causal Language in Psychological Scientists' Descriptions of Their Work
(2017-12-04)
People are biased toward seeing associations between independent events and assuming causal explanations for those associations. Indeed, the lay public incorrectly infers cause-and-effect from descriptions of non-experimental ...
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Links Between Child-Father Resemblance and Child-Reported Paternal Investment
(2016-10-19)
Because conception occurs internally to the human female, ancestral males did not have 100% certainty of their paternity. Evolutionary theorists have proposed that males are sensitive to an offspring’s resemblance to them ...
She's Just Not That Into You : Discrepant Levels of Attraction Between Opposite-Sex Friends
(2018-01-05)
In this study we utilized natural sampling to acquire a set of male-female dyads, and asked male and
female partners about their level of romantic attraction to one another. We predicted that (1) young men
would report ...
Hindsight Knowledge and Relationship Break-Up: Should They Have Seen It Coming?
(2017-03-08)
Research on Hindsight bias began in 1975, when Fischhoff published his seminal article describing the effects of hindsight bias on judgments of important evidence and perceived likelihood of possible outcomes. In this ...
The Real Test : Can College Students Reason About Evidence?
(2018-01-04)
Scientific literacy is considered essential in
modern society (Anelli, 2011), where reasoning
skills and knowledge of the scientific process
can help citizens evaluate claims about food,
relationships, health, climate ...
Are Energy Therapies Supported by Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials? : A Systematic Review
(2018-05)
Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary, energy-based treatments. They are based on the premises that (1) illness is a result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...
Sex Differences In Young Adults’ Attraction To Their Opposite-Sex Friends : Natural Sampling Versus Mental Concepts
(2017-03-27)
Although opposite-sex friendships are often defined as platonic, heterosexual men and women frequently report sexual or romantic undertones in their friendships with the opposite sex. In several studies in which young ...