Behavioral Ecology Blog

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The notion that a “positive attitude” has beneficial effects on health and wellness has received a lot of attention in the popular press (see here, here, and here). Indeed, there are even studies that show that this “good attitude” even improves outcomes in trauma and critical illness.
Evangelical types tip the boat over and claim [...]

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Ask any 1st year Statistics major about the difference between causation and correlation, and chances are, they’ll nail it every time… Given the simplicity of the issue, and the widespread manner in which it’s taught, you’d expect the amount of confusion to approach 0% in folks with advanced degrees in the sciences- especially those doing [...]

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So suppose you were in car accident, and had life-threatening injuries… even worse, suppose that it was your kid/spouse. What type of treatment would you want for them???

A therapy used “successfully” since the Vietnam War, but without the support of empirically derived evidence. OR
A therapy derived from appropriately collected empirical data that has been [...]

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