A Good Diet and a Bad One: An Experimental Contrast

Rejecting a bad option feels like choosing a good one.

Across 4,151 participants, the authors demonstrate a novel framing effect, attribute matching, whereby matching a salient attribute of a decision frame with that of a decision's options facilitates decision-making. This attribute matching is shown to increase decision confidence and, ultimately, consensus estimates by increasing feelings of metacognitive ease. In Study 1, participants choosing ...

Correlated Equilibria, Good and Bad: an Experimental Study

We report results from an experiment that explores the empirical validity of correlated equilibrium, an important generalization of Nash equilibrium. Specifically, we examine the conditions under which subjects playing the game of Chicken will condition their behavior on private third–party recommendations drawn from publicly– announced distributions. We find that when recommendations are given...

Good and bad news for an antiangiogenic.

Nitrates in the human diet – good or bad?

Although the nitrate and nitrite have been used for centuries, it has only recently been discovered that nitrate is manufactured in mammals by the oxidation of nitric oxide and that the nitrate formed also has the potential for disinfecting the food we eat. The mechanisms by which nitric oxide and other nitrogen oxides provide selective toxicity towards pathogens is not yet completely understoo...

Good and bad fever

Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast, high temperature in non-infectious intensive care patients is associated with higher mortality.