Because of You I Did Not Give Up - How Peers Affect Perseverance

“I did it because I trusted you”: Challenges with the Study Environment Biasing Participant Behaviours

We recently replicated and extended a 2009 study that investigated the effectiveness of SSL warnings. Our experimental design aimed to mitigate some of the limitations of that prior study, including allowing participants to use their web browser of choice and recruiting a more representative user sample. However, during this study we observed and measured a strong bias in participants’ behaviou...

Did I say that word or did you? Executive dysfunctions in schizophrenic patients affect memory efficiency, but not source attributions.

INTRODUCTION Schizophrenic patients have difficulties in recognising previously presented verbal information and identifying its sources. The antecedents of these recognition and source misattributions are, however, largely unknown. The current study examined to what extent schizophrenic patients' lack of memory efficiency, their memory errors, and their source misattributions are related to ne...

Do Not Give Up

How double eyelashes give you swollen legs.

How did you sleep in the ICU?

illness, as far as quantitative and qualitative sleep depriva tion can have negative consequences on a physiologic function, particularly the immune mechanism, as well as psychological well-being [1]. Patients’ perception of intensive care is very diff erent depending on the study. To illustrate, Simini reported frequent feelings such as ‘pain, noise, sleep deprivation, thirst, hunger, fear, an...