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Psychology at Bangor: Is it good science to keep adding participants / manipulating data until you find an effect?

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Sunday, 11 March 2012. Is it good science to keep adding participants / manipulating data until you find an effect? The question here it would seem should focus more on the manipulation of data rather than that of adding participants to create change in results. (Or at least that's what I think). Here is normally where a reference would go. There are no good ones). To continue, manipulation of data seems to give off a sense of laziness on the researchers part. Understandably there may be problems, re...

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Psychology at Bangor: Gender Bias In Diagnosis Of Depression

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Friday, 2 December 2011. Gender Bias In Diagnosis Of Depression. Following a discussion Steve Hosier had in a lecture a few days ago about depression and how women are more likely to be diagnosed with depression, it got me thinking about coping mechanisms each gender has and how that could affect amounts of diagnosis. Yeahh writing this Ive just realised it is more informative than topical, but hey its pretty interesting). Http:/ www.upliftprogram.com/facts depression men.html. 4 December 2011 at 12:57.

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Can Gender Role be seen Cross Culturally? | helenjonespsychology

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Can Gender Role be seen Cross Culturally? Gender role can be shaped by the influence of an individual’s culture. Medicine (1997) studied the Lakota tribe, and found that there were 3 defined genders; male female and winkte (male who desires to be female). It was observed that the winkte gender was more creative and took on the role of looking after the children, it was considered lucky to be a winkte. April 29, 2012. Semester 2. Fry (1996) conducted research into the differences of children from differen...

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Can hypnosis really be successful at alleviating pain? | emilycobrien

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Just another WordPress.com site. Can hypnosis really be successful at alleviating pain? Usually pain is relieved using drugs or surgery to either block certain receptors or to remove/fix the source of the problem. So what happens if these methods are unsuccessful? In some cases hypnotic analgesia is used, which is the ability to learn to cope with or get rid of the pain via hypnosis (Wagstaff, 1996). Barber, T.X., Spanos, N.P. and Chaves, J.F. (1974). Hypnotism, Imagination and Human Potentialities.

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Ethnocentrism & Generalisation | anisarah

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March 11, 2012. For psychologists, generalisability is often one of the most important factors when conducting research; what’s the point of the study if it cannot be applied to others and provide useful information to the wider world? Due to the majority of research within psychology being conducted in predominately Western cultural settings (especially older research), this means that in a lot of cases, the findings of these studies are ethnocentric and cannot be generalised to other cultures. Are the ...

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File Drawers, dusty, or dirty? | ajkayaker

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Just another WordPress.com site. File Drawers, dusty, or dirty? The ‘file drawer problem’ is a problem because it biases available data. Therefore, the research does not give an accurate picture of reality. The file drawer problem is the fact that more often than not, positive studies are published, while negative studies are neglected, forgotten and destined to gather dust in the bottom of someone’s file drawer. Perception and Motor Skills,. Research: Just study, or designed? February 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm.

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Does ‘False Consensus’ Effect Exist? | samanthakatepsychology

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Just another WordPress.com site. Does ‘False Consensus’ Effect Exist? February 5, 2012. False Consensus Effect is an egotistic bias, causing one to believe that others in a group will respond to a situation in exactly the same way as oneself (Dawes, 1987). For example, assuming that people hold the same beliefs and opinions towards specific behaviours and attitudes. According to Marks and Miller (1987) almost every psychologist has, at some point, found it difficult to explain a study’s findings be...

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The Bystander Effect | katierbradford

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Just another WordPress.com site. The Bystander Effect is a social phenomenon, and is the idea that people will refrain from helping strangers in distress because if they are among a lot of people and no one else is helping, they feel that they shouldn’t either. Click here. For a video displaying this is action. Coolpsychologist (2009). The Bystander Effect. Youtube. Retrieved from: http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,.

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EcPsychology: How Can We Be Sure?

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Friday, October 21, 2011. How Can We Be Sure? Being a psychologist partially requires being a researcher, which means that we always have to come up with new ideas. The interesting thing about studying psychology is that the new questions never end, since we study the behaviour of individuals and there are many factors that change it. Mental disorders can influence the validity of the results of a study. What if some of the participants are compulsive liars? Motives can also be triggering. For instan...