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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
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... -
Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Attributed to Electromagnetic Fields: A ...
Idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF) is a controversial condition in which people describe symptoms following exposure to... -
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... -
Reliability and validity of the Ethiopian version of the hospital anxiety and...
Background The hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument for evaluating psychological distress from anxiety and depression. HADS has not yet been... -
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... -
A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment/Intervention "App" for Collectin...
We have designed a flexible ecological momentary assessment/intervention smartphone (EMA/EMI) "app". We examine the utility of this app for collecting real-time data, and... -
Authorship Bias in Violence Risk Assessment? A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana...
Various financial and non-financial conflicts of interests have been shown to influence the reporting of research findings, particularly in clinical medicine. In this study, we... -
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... -
Cooperation between Referees and Authors Increases Peer Review Accuracy
Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation... -
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... -
Incongruence in doping related attitudes, beliefs and opinions in the context...
BACKGROUND: Social psychology research on doping and outcome based evaluation of primary anti-doping prevention and intervention programmes have been dominated by self-reports.... -
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... -
Scientists Want More Children
Scholars partly attribute the low number of women in academic science to the impact of the science career on family life. Yet, the picture of how men and women in science – at... -
The Teacher, the Physician and the Person: Exploring Causal Connections betwe...
BACKGROUND: In fledgling areas of research, evidence supporting causal assumptions is often scarce due to the small number of empirical studies conducted. In many studies it... -
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...
