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Saliva as a Biospecimen in the Era of COVID-19
Psychological scientists will need to adopt new practices and protocols to continue conducting saliva-based research safely.
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MTurk Workers Are More Depressed—But “Bots” and Demographic Differences Inflate the Data
MTurk participants have been found to experience major depression at higher rates than the general population, but these studies may require more stringent data-filtering procedures.
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Forward Into the Past, Part 2
Lisa Feldman Barrett digs deeper into William James’s theories on how we think about psychological categories. Counterintuitive hypotheses naturally follow.
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Three Cutting-Edge Approaches to Addressing Critical Issues in Meta-Analyses
The March issue of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science concludes with a special focus on multilevel modeling and meta-analysis.
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Kids in Their Comfort Zones
MIT researcher Kim Scott describes a new platform that lets developmental researchers conduct online studies for babies and children. Families participate from home, on their own computers and their own schedules.
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Forward into the Past
Inspiration for remaking psychological science can be found by returning to our roots, suggests Lisa Feldman Barrett. Drawing from Darwin and James, could the variation that we dismiss as error actually be the phenomena of interest? [OBSERVER March 2020]