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Showing posts with label student research. Show all posts
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Friday, March 16, 2012

press release: Association for Psychological Science - Checking off symptoms online affects our perceptions of risk (student study)



Checking off symptoms online affects our perceptions of risk

"You've been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A half-hour later, you're convinced it's nothing serious—or afraid you have cancer. More than 60 percent of Americans get their health information online, and a majority of those decide whether to see a doctor based on what they find. "Wow, this is an era of self-diagnosis," thought Arizona State University psychologist Virginia Kwan, learning that statistic. How might information accessed online affect individual health decisions?....."

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Article: Friend or foe? Nature (PhD student)



"As a PhD student, learning to navigate the murky waters of collaboration and competition is pretty confusing........But many labs continue to jealously guard their progress and sacrifice paper quality for personal recognition. Should such egotism be acceptable in science, the main aims of which are, ideally, discovery and innovation, rather than accolades for its practitioners? As a young researcher, I am puzzled that a community reliant on integrity and transparency is tolerant of lies and misdirection in the publications race....."