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Running head: SERENDIPITOUS RELATIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE More than Just a Simple Twist of Fate: Serendipitous Relations in Developmental Science

Unexpected, non-normative events are key influences on human development across the life span. Despite this importance, little is known about how an individual may capitalize on unexpected events and transform them into opportunities for sustained positive development. In this article, to address this theoretical lacuna, I introduce the concept of serendipitous relations mutually beneficial, ad...

Socially Responsible Science Is More than “Good Science”

The role of scientist carries an array of responsibilities. The most obvious is accurate and reliable research that can be depended upon by fellow researchers. Scientists also have a responsibility to oppose misuse or abuse in the application of research findings, and to attend to both the limitations and the foreseeable impacts of their work. In addition, as members of society, scientists have...

Organizational Heuristics: More than Simple Rules

This paper explores the nature of heuristics in organizations operating in complex environments. The authors review the current academic literature on heuristics, and then conduct interpretive case studies to explore how two organizations used heuristics in practice. These findings lead to the development of four dimensions along which heuristics vary: scope, focus, development and depth. These...

Fluoridation cessation: More science from Alberta

As with many large-scale research projects, we had more information than was possible to include in a single paper. We thus prepared multiple papers addressing different aspects of the study: overall trends in dental caries—tooth-level data and tooth surface-level data; and trends by socioeconomic indicators (Neurath et al [“the authors”] erroneously state that we “control” for these in the lat...