“Enjoy Your Sexuality, but Do it in Secret”

Do Workers Enjoy Procedural Utility ?

People are likely to obtain utility not only from actual outcomes, but also from the conditions which lead to these outcomes. This paper empirically tests the notion of procedural utility for the context of work relationships. Using a large survey among British workers, we find substantial procedural effects on the utility workers derive from their pay. Utility from pay is not only strongly inf...

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Intuitive eating: enjoy your food, respect your body.

Many people believe that when they are diagnosed with Diabetes – Type 1 or Type 2 and even prediabetes that they can no longer enjoy eating food. Part of the reason that those diagnosed with diabetes feel this way is they are asked to consider the carbohydrate content, fat content, glycemic load, and potential impact on your weight of everything you eat. This can make it extremely difficult to ...

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It Ain’t What You Do (But the Way That You Do It): Will Safety II Transform the Way We Do Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Mannion and Braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – Safety II. In this response, I argue that Safety I should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of Safety I are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’