APPROPRIABILITY PROFILES – DIFFERENT ACTORS, DIFFERENT OUTCOMES

Different Placebos, Different Mechanisms, Different Outcomes: Lessons for Clinical Trials

Clinical trials use placebos with the assumption that they are inert, thus all placebos are considered to be equal. Here we show that this assumption is wrong and that different placebo procedures are associated to different therapeutic rituals which, in turn, trigger different mechanisms and produce different therapeutic outcomes. We studied high altitude, or hypobaric hypoxia, headache, in wh...

Blended Learning in Higher Education: Different Needs, Different Profiles

The use of technology can be seen as an innovative challenge to restructure the teaching-learning process and integrate ICT in independent, collaborative and interactive work. The thoughts of 32 teachers and 36 students vis-à-vis a Course Management System from five undergraduate courses were analysed. A systematic content analysis was merged with a multivariate analysis. The results seem to re...

Examining boredom: Different causes for different coping profiles

Psychological profiles of professional actors

The personality profiles and cognitive styles of 191 professional actors were compared to general population samples. Actors of both sexes were significantly higher than comparison groups in extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness. There was a trend towards higher neuroticism. The actors also scored significantly more highly than comparison groups on Baron-Cohen s empathizing qu...

Different People, Different Outcomes: Assessing Genetic Susceptibility to Lead Exposures

lead toxicity manifests. A new study in fruit flies scrutinizes susceptibility on the genetic level and highlights genes that might help shape individual responses. “There are several problems in trying to find out variations and susceptibility to lead in human populations,” says study coauthor Robert Anholt, a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina State University. Uncontrolled ge...