It Finally Happened to Me

It finally happened to me.

It finally happened to me: I was sued for malpractice by the family of a patient who had died suddenly. My inner turmoil in the aftermath of this traumatic event affected me deeply. While I was an experienced family doctor dedicated to patient-centered medicine, the event challenged my customary approach to my patients. I share three vignettes from my practice that describe my inner dialogue bo...

Was it me when it happened too early? Experience of delayed effects shapes sense of agency.

Sense of agency, the feeling of causing a certain event, depends largely on the delay between an action and its ensuing effect: The feeling to control an effect that is caused by our preceding action is stronger the closer the effect follows the action in time. Yet, repeatedly experiencing an effect after a constant delay might alter this general rule. Here, we assessed sense of agency for effe...

I felt like it happened to me: Television audience perceptions of televised conflict

An increasing number of studies have linked presence to other media effects, typically as a mediating variable. Scholars have also examined individual differences in the experience of presence. For this study, the authors tested whether real world experiences would impact presence sensations when similar scenarios were acted on in television programming. A random sample telephone survey was uti...

Whatever Happened to the IT Plan?

The IT Plan is generally seen as a cornerstone of the IS/IT presence in an organisation. Researchers have outlined various approaches to IT planning and many have suggested categorising such plans in terms of an evolutionary model detailing the degree of integration with organisational business plans. To determine how IT plans are developed in practice and the actual forces at play the study in...

It shouldn't have happened, but it did.