You Call It “Self-Exuberance”; I Call It “Bragging”

You call it "self-exuberance"; I call it "bragging": miscalibrated predictions of emotional responses to self-promotion.

People engage in self-promotional behavior because they want others to hold favorable images of them. Self-promotion, however, entails a trade-off between conveying one's positive attributes and being seen as bragging. We propose that people get this trade-off wrong because they erroneously project their own feelings onto their interaction partners. As a consequence, people overestimate the ext...

Just call it “treatment”

Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term "medication-assisted treatment" to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrated that opioid agonist treatment alone is effective in patients with opioid dependence, regardless of whether they receive counseling. The time has come to call pharmacotherapy for such pat...

Teaching neuroimages: call it as you see it: evolution of bilateral striatal necrosis.

After 2 days of fever, a 5-year-old boy had a partial seizure, then became encephalopathic and anarthric. MRI (figure) was consistent with bilateral striatal necrosis and Mycoplasma pneumonia immunoglobulin G and immunoglobulin M serology was positive. He was treated with plasma exchange and IV steroids with improvement in consciousness and speech. One month later he developed oromandibular, li...

Youth violence? Let's call it what it is.

he headline re a d s , “ S chool Ya rd Assassins Gun Down 13 in Littleton, Colorado.” And everyone asks, “What turns kids into killers?” This is a compelling question. But it is the wrong question. Who are these kids? A “14-year-old shooter” in Paducah. Two “middle-school youth” in Jonesboro. An “expelled student” in Springfield. An “honor student” in Fayetteville. A “sophomore” in Pearl. These...

Epidemiology--is it time to call it a day?