Don't Stop Believing

Don’t Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety

From public speaking to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that people employ to cope with performance-induced anxiety: rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often cha...

Signatures dont des falsifications sont prouvables , et leur application – – – – – – – – Fail - stop Signatures and their Application

The unforgeability of conventional digital signatures is necessarily based on complexity theoretic assumptions, i.e. even the most secure schemes can be broken by an adversary with unexpected computing abilities. Thus we introduce fail-stop signatures: They are as unforgeable as the best conventional signatures, but if a signature is forged nevertheless, the supposed signer can prove the forger...

Believing Conjunctions

I shall argue in this paper that it should.1 To begin with, I shall defend (CP) against several criticisms that have been launched against it. These criticisms are of two kinds, which I shall call internal and external respectively. Internal objections are that a theory that includes (CP) fails to give an account of what it is rational to believe that is satisfactory by its own standards. In pa...

Pain resource nurses: believing the patients, and believing in themselves.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience of being a pain resource nurse (PRN), discuss the influence of the PRN's role on colleagues and patient care, and explore barriers to the PRN role. DESIGN Qualitative, exploratory. SETTING A Veterans Administration hospital in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 12 nurses who received advanced training in pain assessment and management atte...

Thallium 201 myocardial imaging. Seeing is believing--believing what?