‘Marketization’—the illusory magic pill

The Myth of the Magic Pill

Blood's 70th anniversary: arsenic--from poison pill to magic bullet.

As part of a year-long celebration in honor of Blood’s 70th anniversary, we are publishing a series of editorials written by past Editors-in-Chief of the journal. The authors reflect on their experience at Blood in light of the journal’s publication history. Each of these special pieces will highlight and discuss the impact of one or more original research articles that had a significant influe...

Illusory Recollection 1 Running Head: ILLUSORY RECOLLECTION Illusory Recollection

Higham and Vokey (1999, Experiment 1) demonstrated that identifying a briefly displayed word prior to presenting that item in the clear for recognition, enhanced the bias to respond “old” relative to misidentification and that this effect was independent of item selection artifacts. Three experiments investigated the phenomenology associated with this illusion of memory using the standard R/K p...

Illusory Motion

This study reports a new motion illusion in which saccadic eye movements can produce a perceived jump of a static stimulus presented dichoptically. In three experiments, observers made saccades while viewing a stationary stimulus consisting of a disk and random dots presented separately to the two eyes. In Experiments 1 and 2, by measuring the strength of the perceived motion and the velocity o...

Illusory Chance

Despite concerted efforts by Carnap and others, including recently by Jon Williamson in an objective Bayesian setting, no satisfying philosophical justification for learning from experience has been produced thus far. I contend that finitude constraints imposed by our world on even otherwise-ideal agents suggest a new epistemic principle, Illusory Chance, which provides justification for learni...