Reply to Comments on "Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition".

Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studiesofemotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., >.8) correlations between brain activation and personality measures. We show that these correlations are higher than should be expected given the (evidently limited) reliability of both fM...

Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition1

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., >.8) correlations between brain activation and personality measures. We show that these correlations are higher than should be expected given the (evidently limited) reliability of both ...

Reply to the Comments on "Chemistry of Pyrolysis and Kinetic Studies of Shea Nut (Vitellaria Paradoxa) Shells Activated Carbon for Textile Wastewater Treatment"

How to reply to referees' comments when submitting manuscripts for publication

Background: The publication of articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals is a fairly complex and stepwise process that involves responding to referees’ comments. Little guidance is available in the biomedical literature on how to deal with such comments. Objective: The objective of this article is to provide guidance to notice writers on dealing with peer review comments in a way that maxim...

Determining the role of dark triad of personality, intolerance of uncertainty, expression of emotion and empirical avoidance in predicting high-risk sexual behaviors of delinquent adolescents

Juvenile delinquency is a growing social phenomenon that occurs in various forms in society. In this regard, the perpuse of this research was determining the role of the dark triad of personality (machiavellianism, narcissism and anti-socialism), intolerance of uncertainty, expression of excitement and empirical avoidance in predicting high-risk sexual behaviors of delinquent adolescents in Teh...