Flexibility can Hurt Dynamic Matching System Performance

Can reassurance hurt ?

Naïve Cartography: How Intuitions about Display Configuration Can Hurt Performance

What you can't see can hurt you!

What You Can’t See Can Hurt You! Summer is here, the weather is warm and thoughts turn to sandy beaches and sunbathing as well as outdoor sports. While we may think to protect our skin from sunlight, we tend to forget about the eye. Both visible and invisible or ultraviolet (UV) portions of sunlight can damage the eye, lids and surrounding skin. The nature of the injury varies with the amount a...

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

T he sexual health of midlife women is a topic often overlooked by both primary care providers and researchers. Traditionally, sexual health research and risk reduction strategies have focused on younger women who have higher rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and unintended pregnancy.1,2 However, there is now evidence that midlife women are at greater risk of new STIs and unintended...

Know Thy Neighbor: Costly Information Can Hurt Cooperation in Dynamic Networks

People need to rely on cooperation with other individuals in many aspects of everyday life, such as teamwork and economic exchange in anonymous markets. We study whether and how the ability to make or break links in social networks fosters cooperate, paying particular attention to whether information on an individual's actions is freely available to potential partners. Studying the role of info...