It is possible to be seriously misled by taking the statistical competence (and/or the intellectual honesty) of authors for granted. Some common errors committed (deliberately or inadvertently) by the authors of papers are given in the final box.

concepts are much harder to represent because they have no tangible form. Examples include the concepts of justice, freedom, honesty, and family. Designers often use a visual strategy where one concrete concept shows a snapshot of the abstract concept, such

Conflicts of interest arise between signaller and receiver in most kinds of biological communication. Some authors have argued that this conflict is likely to give rise to deceit and exploitation, as receivers lag behind in the coevolutionary 'arms race' with signallers. Others have argued that such manipulation is likely to be short-lived and that receivers can avoid being deceived by paying a...

A pretest was used to identify whether the traits of honesty or intelligence were either central or peripheral to individual subjects' self-conceptions. In a subsequent impression formation task, these subjects' impressions of others were influenced by both subject trait centrality and judgment dimension. When presented with target descriptions containing both positive and negative behaviors, t...