Giving up on Taxol

Greece giving up on tobacco control.

Media Concentration: Giving up on Democracy

Meyer for suggestions and advice. Portions of this Article were presented to the Communications Law Section of the AALS in New Orleans (Jan. 2002). A preliminary version is included in, Medienkonzentration und Angebotsvielfalt zwischen Kartell-und Rundfunkrecht (Uwe Blaurock ed. 2002) (conference proceedings) and as an appendix to Comments of the Consumers Union et al., MM Docket Nos. 01-235, 9...

Giving Up Problem

How do people decide to abandon a problem? Participants were presented with unsolvable water-jar problems, having been accurately informed of the prior probability of solvability. Across three experiments, we discovered effects of prior probability of solvability and of problem-size (number of distinct problem states) on measures of effort and confidence. If a problem is more likely to be solva...

Giving up on unattainable goals: benefits for health?

Three studies examined associations between goal disengagement and goal reengagement tendencies and indicators of physical health (e.g., health problems, cortisol rhythms, sleep efficiency). Based on research showing that goal adjustment tendencies are associated with subjective well-being, the authors predicted that people who are better able to disengage from unattainable goals and reengage w...

Giving up on child psychotherapy: who drops out?

Some critical comments are offered with regard to the use of the designation psychotherapy dropout in the article by Weisz, Weiss, and Langmeyer (1987). It is proposed that individuals who do not begin a course of psychotherapy should not be viewed as dropouts. Reference is also made to problems of generalization.