The Skeptical Sleuth
Applying a healthy dose of skepticism to new findings about health and psychology.
James C. Coyne Ph.D.
The question is not whether you’ll change; you will. Research clearly shows that everyone’s personality traits shift over the years, often for the better. But who we end up becoming and how much we like that person are more in our control than we tend to think they are.
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Jim Coyne, Ph.D., is a clinical health psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
This blog is intended to encourage a healthy skeptical attitude toward the behavioral sciences literature and media coverage of it. It will provide critiques of specific studies and claims but also give readers a set of tools with which they can independently evaluate claims and be alert to hype and hokum. By confronting the journals and the media with better armed and more sophisticated readers, the blog is intended to improve the quality of the information available about research in the behavioral sciences.
Claims that are too good to be true probably are not true.