Tobacco control and misplaced loyalties

Flexible Loyalties: How Malleable Are Bicultural Loyalties?

Biculturals are individuals who are acculturated in two cultures and have dual identities. Due to this, many early discussions on biculturalism argued that biculturals may have divided loyalties between their two cultural backgrounds and the identities derived from these backgrounds. This view is further highlighted given historical and contemporary debate regarding immigrants in the European a...

Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox

We introduce and test the hypothesis that increasing perceived control over the release of private information will decrease individuals’ concern about privacy and increase their propensity to disclose sensitive information, even when the objective risks associated with such disclosures do not change or worsen. Three online experiments manipulated participants’ control over information release,...

Managed care and undividing loyalties.

Dividing loyalties: caring for individuals and populations.

Are health maintenance organization (HMO) physicians obligated to act exclusively in the interest of the individual patient? Does the mere existence of financial incentives to limit patient care violate this obligation? To what extent are doctors responsible for the population of patients served by a health plan, or for promoting a fair distribution of health care among society as a whole? Thes...

Misplaced Trust ?

Introduction Driverless cars are on the way. Most major motor manufacturers are developing them, and all expect them to be on our roads sooner, rather than later [1]. When we drive, we believe we are in control. Yet, technologies such as cruise control, lane control and, soon, "platooning" or "vehicle convoying" are beginning to take away our direct control of vehicle speed/direction. While we ...