The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that James David Lieber has been barred from work on federally funded research for a period of three years due to falsifying data in a study of gender differences in opiate users at UCLA. A notice in the Federal Register (7/23/07) confirms that Lieber was found to have falsified interviews, urine ( Read more... )

Whitley et al (1999) hypothesized that women, socialized as keepers of morality, would show less favorable attitudes towards academic cheating and less cheating behavior than men. While their meta-analysis did find a moderate difference in attitudes towards cheating, the difference in behaviors was small. One possible mediating factor they found ( Read more... )

Do differences in brain size actually matter? Do they matter in terms of relative size, or in terms of absolute size? What areas would these differences affect? Willerman et al (1991) investigated differences in total brain volume, relative to height; they found IQ correlated. Wickett et al (2000) also believe brain size may be correlated with ( Read more... )