Sense of Guilt Barely Dodged:

Guilt enhances the sense of control and drives risky judgments.

In the present studies, we investigate the hypothesis that guilt influences risk taking by enhancing one's sense of control. Across multiple inductions of guilt, we demonstrate that experimentally induced guilt enhances optimism about risks for the self (Study 1), preferences for gambles versus guaranteed payoffs (Studies 2, 4, and 6), and the likelihood that one will engage in risk-taking beha...

Barely Scratching the Surface

I tching or pruritus is an unpleasant sensation that evokes the desire or reflex to scratch. Itching in people with diabetes for the most part suggests a skin condition such as psoriasis, eczema, sunburn, athlete’s foot, hidradenitis suppurativa, pruritus vulvae from monilial infections, xerosis and diabetic eczema, necrobiosis diabeticorum, allergies to medications, drug eruptions, and many ot...

Hospital safety: Texas dodged a bullet.

Hurricane Ike was just one disaster among many in 2008, a year in which 235 816 people died in such events – Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the Sichuan earthquake in southwestern China being the most notable. Hospital safety has been under the spotlight this year with the World Disaster Reduction Campaign, World Health Day and the International Day for Disaster Reduction on 14 October 2009 all h...

Barely Transitive Groups

This is a survey article on barely transitive groups. It also involves some recent results in the case of a non-locally finite barely transitive group.

Enhancing Barely Perceptible Targets