What abolishing the family would not do

What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?().

Would people choose what they think would maximize their subjective well-being (SWB)? We present survey respondents with hypothetical scenarios and elicit both choice and predicted SWB rankings of two alternatives. While choice and predicted SWB rankings usually coincide in our data, we find systematic reversals. We identify factors-such as predicted sense of purpose, control over one's life, f...

What would a "responsible health secretary" do?

I don’t want this weekly column to become party political. But I do need to discuss (again) the behaviour of Jeremy Hunt, England’s health secretary. I have never seen frontline NHS staff so pressured, finances so parlous, and clinicians’ mood so low. Hunt has told parliament that he is commissioning a review into the poor morale of junior doctors, apparently in denial about his own leading rol...

Death after discharge--what would you do?

ith sferred . In the usual pile of paperwork was a newspaper clippin (not his real name to respect confidentiality) had died 2 after his discharge to another facility. I had a feeling it happen, but it greatly upset me nevertheless. The ques were the usual ones a doctor asks when a patient dies. I have done anything to prevent it? What should I do n better understand what happened and to preven...

What a Rational Parser Would Do

This article examines cognitive process models of human sentence comprehension based on the idea of informed search. These models are rational in the sense that they strive to find a good syntactic analysis quickly. Informed search derives a new account of garden pathing that handles traditional counterexamples. It supports a symbolic explanation for local coherence as well as an algorithmic ac...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet