Judgment, Doubt, and Self-Doubt: A Reflexive Turn from the Borderland of Lampedusa

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Self-confidence and performance: A little self-doubt helps

Objectives: To test the hypothesis that a decrease in confidence on a well-learned task will increase effort and performance. Design: A 2 (group: control, experimental) 2 (trial: practice, competition) mixed-model with repeated measures on the second factor. Method: Expert skippers’ (n 1⁄4 28) self-confidence was reduced via a combination of task (i.e., change of rope) and competitive demands. ...

Possible Selves and Self-Doubt: A Poverty of Desired Possibility

Three studies tested whether self-doubt stems more from the absence of a strong desired self or the presence of a strong undesired self. Across studies, participants completed individual difference measures and then imagined a desired, neutral, or undesired possible self and completed strength measures for the imagined possible self. As predicted, compared to low selfdoubt participants, high se...

Clinical assessment and the benefit of the doubt : What is the doubt ?

Introduction Clinical education and associated assessment is an important component of nurse education. A range of factors contribute to a culture that makes the assessment of clinical competence difficult. These factors are environmental, educational, cultural and linguistic diversity amongst students, student expectation, a diverse range of clinical education models. All of which contribute t...

Microchimerism and Renal Transplantation: Doubt Still Persists

Background: The Presence of donor leukocytes in recipients of organ allograft has been shown even several years after transplantation. However, it remains unclear whether this donor cell microchimerism plays an effective role in allograft acceptance or is simply a consequence of immunosuppressive conditions in recipients. Objective: To study microchimerism in a group of kidney transplant recipi...