Awareness Is Not Enough: Frequent Use of Water Pollution Information and Changes to Risky Behavior

When enough is not enough: Information overload and metacognitive decisions to stop studying information.

People are often exposed to more information than they can actually remember. Despite this frequent form of information overload, little is known about how much information people choose to remember. Using a novel "stop" paradigm, the current research examined whether and how people choose to stop receiving new-possibly overwhelming-information with the intent to maximize memory performance. Pa...

Adverse drug event reporting: awareness is not enough.

Most drugs are used in a larger and more heterogenous population after they are brought to market than initially was evaluated in preapproval trials. Postmarketing pharmacovigilance provides data that enhance the rational and safe use of medications. In particular, the safety profile of drugs is dynamic; new information is continually assessed regarding use and outcomes. Among postmarketing sur...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Not Enough Points Is Enough

Models of the untyped λ-calculus may be defined either as applicative structures satisfying a bunch of first order axioms, known as “λ-models”, or as (structures arising from) any reflexive object in a cartesian closed category (ccc, for brevity). These notions are tightly linked in the sense that: given a λ-model A, one may define a ccc in which A (the carrier set) is a reflexive object; conve...

When Enough Is Not Enough

People are often exposed to more information than they can actually remember. Despite this frequent form of information overload, little is known about how much information people choose to remember. Using a novel “stop” paradigm, the current research examined whether and how people choose to stop receiving new—possibly overwhelming—information with the intent to maximize memory performance. Pa...