PET Is Alive and Well

The impact bias is alive and well.

A substantial body of research on affective forecasting has found that people often overestimate the affective impact of future events. Levine, Lench, Kaplan, and Safer (2012) argued that whereas people may overestimate the duration of their emotional responses, they do not overestimate the initial intensity of these responses as much as previous research has suggested. We suggest that Levine e...

The Yentl syndrome is alive and well.

More women than men die annually from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in the developed world. This represents a reversal of fortune from previous decades and places women firmly as the new majority now impacted. Notably, the adverse IHD gender gap is the widest in relatively young women, where myocardial infarction (MI) mortality is 2-fold higher in women under 50 years compared with age-matched ...

Authority Control is Alive and ... Well ? Richard

Linnaeus: alive and well

C arl Linné, more widely known as Carolus Linnaeus, died in 1778 but his spirit lives on in the many classification systems he developed, as well as in a more recent Swedish innovation, the Linnaeus Database (1), a major contributor to an understanding of ageing from a life course perspective. Linnaeus is widely regarded as the founder of modern taxonomy, responsible (in 1735) for introducing t...

The Dodo Bird Verdict Is Alive and Well – Mostly

17 meta-analyses have been examined of comparisons of active treatments with each other, in contrast to the more usual comparisons of active treatments with controls. These meta-analyses yield a mean uncorrected absolute effect size for Cohen’s d of .20, which is small and non-significant (an equivalent Pearson’s r would be .10). Its smallness confirms Rosenzweig’s supposition in 1936 about the...