Retraction, She Wrote: Dorothy Bishop’s life after research

Murder, She Wrote

Enhanced sensitivity to information of negative (compared to positive) valence has an adaptive value, for example, by expediting the correct choice of avoidance behavior. However, previous evidence for such enhanced sensitivity has been inconclusive. Here we report a clear advantage for negative over positive words in categorizing them as emotional. In 3 experiments, participants classified bri...

Murder, She Wrote: Enhanced Sensitivity to Negative Word Valence

Enhanced sensitivity to information of negative (compared to positive) valence has an adaptive value, for example, by expediting the correct choice of avoidance behavior. However, previous evidence for such enhanced sensitivity has been inconclusive. Here we report a clear advantage for negative over positive words in categorizing them as emotional. In 3 experiments, participants classified bri...

Murder, she wrote or was it merely selective nontreatment?

Running Head: Enhanced Sensitivity to Negative Word Valence Murder, She Wrote: Enhanced Sensitivity to Negative Word Valence in Press, Emotion

Enhanced sensitivity to information of negative (compared to positive) valence has an adaptive value, for example by expediting the correct choice of avoidance behavior. However, previous evidence for such enhanced sensitivity has been inconclusive. Here we report a clear advantage for negative over positive words in categorizing them as emotional. In three experiments, participants classified ...

Profile: Dorothy Wylie.

ambitious 18-year-old was ready to begin her nursing career, even though her father would have preferred her to do secretarial work. The problem was that the two hospitals to which she applied accepted nursing students at age 19, and she didn’t want to wait. Undeterred, the young woman further aggrieved her staunch Protestant family by enrolling at the Catholic St. Michael’s Hospital. That woma...