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The relationship between diver experience levels and perceptions of attractiv...
Artificial reefs are increasingly used worldwide as a method for managing recreational diving since they have the potential to satisfy both conservation goals and economic... -
iPad-Assisted Measurements of Duration Estimation in Psychiatric Patients and...
Handheld devices with touchscreen controls have become widespread in the general population. In this study, we examined the duration estimates (explicit timing) made by patients... -
Regression of Moral Reasoning during Medical Education: Combined Design Study...
BACKGROUND: Moral reasoning is important for developing medical professionalism but current evidence for the relationship between education and moral reasoning does not clearly... -
Shorter Lines Facilitate Reading in Those Who Struggle
People with dyslexia, who ordinarily struggle to read, sometimes remark that reading is easier when e-readers are used. Here, we used eye tracking to observe high school... -
A Critical Meta-Analysis of Lens Model Studies in Human Judgment and Decision...
Achieving accurate judgment (‘judgmental achievement’) is of utmost importance in daily life across multiple domains. The lens model and the lens model equation provide useful... -
Omissions and Byproducts across Moral Domains
Research indicates that moral violations are judged less wrong when the violation results from omission as opposed to commission, and when the violation is a byproduct as... -
The Monkey Puzzle: A Systematic Review of Studies of Stress, Social Hierarchi...
BACKGROUND: It is often suggested that psychosocial factors, such as stress, or one's social position, may play an important role in producing social gradients in human disease.... -
Smart Drugs "As Common As Coffee": Media Hype about Neuroenhancement
Background The use of prescription drugs to improve cognitive functioning in normal persons –“neuroenhancement” – has gained recent attention from bioethicists and... -
Priming of Social Distance? Failure to Replicate Effects on Social and Food J...
Williams and Bargh (2008) reported an experiment in which participants were simply asked to plot a single pair of points on a piece of graph paper, with the coordinates provided... -
Cognitive gain or standstill?
Recent research in group cognition points towards the existence of collective cognitive competencies that transcend individual group members’ cognitive competencies. Since... -
Content-Based VLE Designs Improve Learning Efficiency in Constructivist Stati...
Background: We introduced a series of computer-supported workshops in our undergraduate statistics courses, in the hope that it would help students to gain a deeper... -
Wind Speed Perception and Risk
BACKGROUND: How accurately do people perceive extreme wind speeds and how does that perception affect the perceived risk? Prior research on human-wind interaction has focused on... -
When One Size Does Not Fit All: A Simple Statistical Method to Deal with Acro...
In science, it is a common experience to discover that although the investigated effect is very clear in some individuals, statistical tests are not significant because the... -
Assessing public engagement with science in a university primate research cen...
Recent years have seen increasing encouragement by research institutions and funding bodies for scientists to actively engage with the public, who ultimately finance their work.... -
Gender, Culture, and Sex-Typed Cognitive Abilities
Although gender differences in cognitive abilities are frequently reported, the magnitude of these differences and whether they hold practical significance in the educational... -
Food Insecurity and Children’s Mental Health: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study
Food insecurity (which can be defined as inadequate access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets individuals’ dietary needs) is concurrently associated with... -
Dopamine D1, D2, D3 Receptors, Vesicular Monoamine Transporter Type-2 (VMAT2)...
The dopamine D(1), D(2), D(3) receptors, vesicular monoamine transporter type-2 (VMAT2), and dopamine transporter (DAT) densities were measured in 11 aged human brains (aged... -
Advanced Mathematical Study and the Development of Conditional Reasoning Skills
Since the time of Plato, philosophers and educational policy-makers have assumed that the study of mathematics improves one's general 'thinking skills'. Today, this argument,... -
Training Programmes Can Change Behaviour and Encourage the Cultivation of Ove...
Cultivation of wild-harvested plant species has been proposed as a way of reducing over-exploitation of wild populations but lack of technical knowledge is thought to be a... -
The Mental Health Consequences of the Recession: Economic Hardship and Employ...
Objectives A period of economic recession may be particularly difficult for people with mental health problems as they may be at higher risk of losing their jobs, and more...
