Preschoolers find ways to resist temptation after learning that willpower can be energizing

Happiness When Temptation Overwhelms Willpower

The economics of happiness is applied to further the understanding of important consumption decisions in which limited willpower is often argued to lead to suboptimal choices. Based on individuals’ judgments of the quality of their lives, it is, in principle, possible to derive whether some observed behavior is suboptimal and is therefore reducing a person’s welfare. We discuss the key characte...

Beyond killing: Can we find new ways to manage infection?

The antibiotic pipeline is running dry and infectious disease remains a major threat to public health. An efficient strategy to stay ahead of rapidly adapting pathogens should include approaches that replace, complement or enhance the effect of both current and novel antimicrobial compounds. In recent years, a number of innovative approaches to manage disease without the aid of traditional anti...

Easy ways to resist change in medicine.

(Hippocrates, Stimson) leverage techniques (Kocher, Milch), and scapular manipulation. Kocher’s manoeuvre was originally described in 1870. The affected arm is flexed at the elbow and adducted against the side of the body. The forearm is rotated externally and the upper arm lifted in a sagittal plane as far as possible and finally internally rotated. There have been many adjustments to this wid...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Why Solutions Can Be Hard to Find -- A Featural Theory . . .