“We have to hate our immediate predecessors”: Lawrence and Galsworthy

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

What have we learnt from our mistakes?

The authors discuss the general steps involved in good decision making and use those steps to organize results from behavioral decision research, illustrating some of the challenges in making important choices. Framing effects, self serving biases, and context effects are a few of the errors and biases presented. The authors also discuss a variety of techniques for reducing biases and errors. T...

Why do we love to hate ourselves?

Dhaliwal’s comment on Zwaan et al nicely refutes what has been called ‘the hypothesis of special cause’—the notion that when things turn out wrong, the cognitive processes leading to that outcome must have been fundamentally different (ie, error-prone) from when they turn out right. Dhaliwal’s argument recapitulates thinking that is over 100 years old; one of the early contributors to psycholog...

do we have to consider the method of opium usage in our study?

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PFS: the endpoint we love and love to hate.