Summary Of False-Positive Psychology

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Steinberg and Monahan were prompted to reanalyze well-publicized longitudinal studies that purported to find a causal link between ‘sexy’ media exposure to sexual behavior in adolescents, which led to both public alarm and entertainment industry criticism. Their careful reanalysis showed no empirical evidence that the initiation of sexual intercourse is hastened by the exposure to sexy media. It is mandatory that this is seen in terms of the replication crisis in psychology and what Simmons, Nelson and Simonsohn called ‘false-positive psychology’, which is about the fact that countless researchers are more likely to falsely find that an effect exists than to correctly find evidence that it does not. The portrayal of male and female advertising