Dalmeet Singh Chawla
‘Spell-checker for statistics’ reduces errors in the psychology literature
A free-to-use tool designed to detect statistical errors is significantly reducing the number of mistakes creeping into papers, suggests...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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