Where He Found Himself

“Does he need help or can he help himself?” Preschool children’s expectations about others’ instrumental helping versus self-helping

In the present study, we investigated a total of fifty-one 3.5-, 4.5-, and 5.5-year-old children's expectations about another person's helping behaviors. We asked children to complete a story in which one person failed to complete his goal (e.g., because an object was misplaced or put out of his reach) while the other person observed the event. We asked whether the children expected the other p...

Suicide: where can help be found?

“ Top - down ” effects where none should be found :

120 words) A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as moods, action-capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect what we see. Are these truly effects on perception, or might some instead reflect influences on judgment, memory, or response bias? Here, we exploit an infamous art-historical reasoning error (the socalled...

"He was never quite 'himself' after that accident": exploring the long-term consequences of mild traumatic brain injury.

Patients seek medical care after traumatic brain injury (TBI) roughly 2 million times per year in the United States. Eighty percent of these injuries can be classified as ''mild''. The real incidence of TBI is, however, unknown, because victims of mild TBI often do not see a physician. Having your ''bell rung'' or ''seeing stars'' is an experience that a high percentage of us could talk about f...

A Physician in Spite of Himself

This text, published in late 2009, presents an excellent guide to herbal pharmacotherapies and is well laid out. Evidence is graded from A (Strong scientific), B (good), C (unclear or conflicting), through to D (fair negative). A series of chapters on relevant organs and diseases including Parkinson's disease, insomnia, and pain, are very comprehensive. Several diseases had some commendable and...