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Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 16, 2020
  • 1 min

Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind

Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM weed-out...
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Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 18, 2020
  • 1 min

Digital badges aren’t enough incentive for researchers to share their data

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled t...
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A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 20, 2019
  • 1 min

A Team Approach to Tackling the Psychology Replication Crisis

In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and ...
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It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 12, 2019
  • 1 min

It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research

You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand...
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Should Killers With a Violence Gene Get Lighter Sentences?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 22, 2019
  • 1 min

Should Killers With a Violence Gene Get Lighter Sentences?

In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather. ...
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How Power Poses Took Over the World
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 30, 2018
  • 1 min

How Power Poses Took Over the World

Every year, people at hundreds of schools and workplaces around the world are taught how to stand like Superman. The rationale behind thi...
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The need for digital intelligence
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 3, 2018
  • 1 min

The need for digital intelligence

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours fo...
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Young People May Be the Loneliest of All
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Oct 1, 2018
  • 1 min

Young People May Be the Loneliest of All

Young people today seem more connected than ever to their peers. Compared to older generations, the under-25 crowd grew up with laptops, ...
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Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Aug 8, 2018
  • 1 min

Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility?

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools t...
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"Loss Of Confidence Project" Prods Scientists to Do the Right Thing
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 23, 2018
  • 1 min

"Loss Of Confidence Project" Prods Scientists to Do the Right Thing

I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for...
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Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.

Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't alw...
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Predicting the Aftershock
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jan 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Predicting the Aftershock

Large-scale disasters produce ripple effects well beyond the physical damage they cause. Around a quarter of those who endure earthquakes...
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Controversial software is proving surprisingly accurate at spotting errors in psychology papers
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 28, 2017
  • 1 min

Controversial software is proving surprisingly accurate at spotting errors in psychology papers

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed rea...
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A new ‘accelerator’ aims to bring big science to psychology
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Nov 8, 2017
  • 1 min

A new ‘accelerator’ aims to bring big science to psychology

A study of how people perceive human faces will kick off a new initiative to massively scale up, accelerate, and reproduce psychology stu...
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Most People Say They Don’t Trust Others. So What?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Jul 18, 2017
  • 1 min

Most People Say They Don’t Trust Others. So What?

Do people have a problem placing trust in one another? At least in an abstract, globalized sense, the answer is yes, according to a study...
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No, Wearing Red Doesn’t Make You Hotter
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • May 12, 2017
  • 1 min

No, Wearing Red Doesn’t Make You Hotter

A popular theory suggesting people perceive others wearing red as more attractive has come under fire. Read the full article at Slate mag...
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Religious Belief and Analytical Thinking Don’t Necessarily Cancel Each Other Out
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Mar 15, 2017
  • 1 min

Religious Belief and Analytical Thinking Don’t Necessarily Cancel Each Other Out

In 2012, several media headlines touted the narrative of what seemed like a groundbreaking study, which claimed that techniques used to m...
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Do Men Eat More Pizza in Front of Women?
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Feb 3, 2017
  • 1 min

Do Men Eat More Pizza in Front of Women?

Analytical techniques of four studies by a prominent Cornell University researcher came into question after the scientist blogged about t...
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Lost in Lego: Art of the Brick displays more than 80 sculptures
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
  • Sep 18, 2014
  • 1 min

Lost in Lego: Art of the Brick displays more than 80 sculptures

Art of the Brick, an exhibition made of more than 1 million LEGO bricks, is set to open in London on 26th September. The full story was p...
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