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Hovering Questions : Are Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch Evidence-Based Practices?
(2017-11-27)
Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary energy based
treatments. They are based on the premise that (1) illness is a
result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...
The Real Test : Can College Students Reason About Evidence?
(2018-01-04)
Scientific literacy is considered essential in
modern society (Anelli, 2011), where reasoning
skills and knowledge of the scientific process
can help citizens evaluate claims about food,
relationships, health, climate ...
Are Energy Therapies Supported by Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials? : A Systematic Review
(2018-05)
Therapeutic Touch and Healing Touch are complementary, energy-based treatments. They are based on the premises that (1) illness is a result of “a disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being” and (2) ...
Those Shoes are so You! : Personality Expressed in Shoes
(2019-05)
People express their personality traits and attitudes in many ways. People express themselves in the way they speak and carry themselves, what
they post on social media, the leisure activities they pursue, the music they ...
Motivated Numeracy : How People Interpret Statistics About Gender Differences
(2019-05)
Numeric problems, like those shown in the 2x2 matrices to the right, require people to calculate two proportions and then compare the proportions in order to get the correct answer. In general, thinking in terms of proportions ...
Unwarranted Blame : The Role of Hindsight Bias in Judgments of Suicide Likelihood and Preventability
(2019-05)
Hindsight bias is commonly referred to as the “I knew it all along” effect. Individuals who are informed of a specific outcome prior to judging how the event will pan out perceive that outcome as more likely to occur than ...
Primed to Perceive Harm : People’s Responses to Ambiguous Statements as a Function of Priming
(2019-05)
Microaggressions were originally defined as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial ...