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Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can […]
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New publication: Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Ed. by Kecskes, Istvan & Romero-Trillo, Jesús
Mouton de Gruyter 2013. Click this link for Table of Contents and other details
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It seems dangerously easy to get scientific nonsense published
Academic publishing Science’s Sokal moment The Economist Oct 5th 2013 |From the print edition IN 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, submitted a paper to Social Text, a leading scholarly journal of postmodernist cultural studies. The journal’s peer reviewers, whose job it is to ensure that published research is up to snuff, gave it […]
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I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov
By PAM BELLUCK Casey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesEmanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd worked on a study that found that reading literary fiction leads to better performance on tests of social perception.
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Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter)
I’ve just finished the last proofs of the forthcoming volume “Research trends in intercultural pragmatics”, edited by Istvan Kecskes and Jesús Romero-Trillo, to appear in September 2013. See webpage
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