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Scientific American: Lets Stretch Research to Make it Sexy!

Posted on June 09, 2008

You d think that Scientific American would be the last publication on Earth where its editors would stretch an article or its headlines to suggest findings not actually found in the research. And if you re a regular reader of World of Psychology, you d know you d be wrong. Scientific American recently published an article entitled, Blogging: It s Good for You. In such an article, you d expect an article to reference research on blogging, no? Well, not surprising, the article had no such reference. Which didn t stop its editors from suggesting that expressive writing = blogg...

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