“What you ask is more important than how you capture the response”

The critical care pharmacist: what you get is more than what you see.

How you ask is what you get: Willingness-to-pay for a QALY in Germany

We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for either an extension of their life or an improvement in their health corresponding to a gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one version of the survey exactly copied the questionnaire used in the EuroVaQ project (Pennington et al...

You have more capital than you think.

Senior executives typically delegate the responsibility for managing a firm's derivatives portfolio to in-house financial experts and the company's financial advisers. That's a strategic blunder, argues this Nobel laureate, because the inventiveness of modern financial markets makes it possible for companies to double or even triple their capacity to invest in their strategic assets and compete...

What you learn is more than what you see: what can sequencing effects tell us about inductive category learning?

Inductive category learning takes place across time. As such, it is not surprising that the sequence in which information is studied has an impact in what is learned and how efficient learning is. In this paper we review research on different learning sequences and how this impacts learning. We analyze different aspects of interleaved (frequent alternation between categories during study) and b...

What You Do Is What You Set: Semantic Representations of Tasks and the Capture of Awareness

We designed two experiments in order to disambiguate the impact of meaning on the detection and awareness of an unexpected stimulus under conditions of inattentional blindness (IB). The key variable was the meaning of the unexpected stimulus. The meaning was either task-associated or task-unassociated. The unexpected stimulus was also always irrelevant to the performance of the task and shared ...