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• "Big Win": Dubious Results Becoming Less Common in Psychology

  07-06-2025 10:29 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: ScienceMore than a decade after psychologists began to seriously wrestle with questions about the rigor and reliability of their work, there are signs the field is improving. A recent analysis of 240,355 psychology papers reports that "fragile" statistical results—a potential marker of poor research practices or samples that are too small—decreased between 2004 and 2024. The new analysis appears in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological...
  
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• New College Grad? Here's What Experts Say You Should Know About AI

  07-06-2025 10:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsCollege graduates in the U.S. face a daunting task this year: putting their degrees to work just as artificial intelligence is changing jobs and industries from technology and finance to media, law, and medicine. As a result, unemployment among fresh graduates recently surpassed the nation's overall jobless rate for the first time—a shift some experts attribute in part to the creeping influence of AI. Here's some advice on how to navigate this...
  
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• Kennedy Center Cancels Week of Events Celebrating LGBTQ Rights

  07-06-2025 10:28 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CBS News - U.S. NewsOrganizers and the Kennedy Center have canceled a week's worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ rights for this summer's World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., after the ousting of leaders at one of the nation's premier cultural institutions. The move comes amid massive changes at the Kennedy Center, with President Trump firing the president and chairman and replacing most of the board with loyalists who then elected him the new Kennedy Center...
  
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• ‘No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16’: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech

  07-06-2025 10:01
  One year on, Jonathan Haidt talks about the way his book changed the global conversation around children and digital devices – and explains how he handles his own teenagersJonathan Haidt is a man with a mission. You’ll have to forgive the cliche, because it’s literally true. The author of The Anxious Generation, an urgent warning about the effect of digital tech on young minds, is based at New York University’s business school: “I’m around all these corporate
  
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