He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation

The Hippi did it

and colleagues have identified a protein called Hippi as one possible mediator of Huntington disease (HD) neuronal cell death. HD begins with expansion of the polyglutamine repeats in the huntingtin protein (Htt). This frees up Hip1 protein, which normally binds to Htt. Free Hip1 can then bind to the Hippi protein identified by Nicholson, and the two proteins join in a complex with procaspase 8...

Did she mean to do it? Acquiring a folk theory of intentionality.

The ability to both identify and explain others' intentional acts is fundamental for successful social interaction. In two cross-sectional studies, we investigated 3- to 9-year-olds' (n=148) understanding of the folk concept of intentionality, using three types of intentionality measures. The relationship between this type of reasoning and false belief and interpretive mind understanding was al...

What did they know, and when did they know it?

voted to ease monetary policy, which was widely reported as a lowering of interest rates. Although some interest rates fell with the Fed' s action, the declines were generally small, and over succeeding months market interest rates tended to rise. The yield on the Treasury' s 10-year note, for example, which had been 5.63 percent on January 30, and which closed at 5.60 percent on January 31, st...

Perhaps the FOMC Did What It Said It Did: An Alternative Interpretation of the Great Inflation

Bank of Canada working papers are theoretical or empirical works-in-progress on subjects in economics and finance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada. ii Acknowledgements We received many valuable comments from participants of the 2006 Workshop on Macroeconomic Forecasting, Analysis and Policy with Da...

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.