a new rela-tionship? Sir, Dr Michael Whitfield's contribution (Vol. 102(iv) Novem-ber 1987 pp 95-6) raises some important issues. He begins by reviewing replies from today's students to his question: "Has this attachment (to a general practitioner) altered your previous view about hospital medi-cine?" One student commented: "The attitude of SHOs to GPs' letters seems a touch arrogant on occasio...

The past decade has produced ample evidence that patients are injured by medical care. A landmark document “To Err is Human” articulated a way to protect patients based on analysis of health care organizations according to complex systems and principles of human performance rather than “blame and shame”. To understand how to prevent injury, full – but protected – disclosure is required as well ...

The overall aim of this thesis was to explore the relationship between managerial leadership on the one hand and stress, health, and other health related outcomes among employees on the other. This was done in five studies, three using a cross-sectional and two a prospective design. In all studies the employees rated their managers with a selfadministered questionnaire. The health outcomes were...

We investigate how belief change in cooperative dialogues can be handled within a modal logic of action, belief, and intention. We first review the main approaches of the literature, and point out some of their shortcomings. We then propose a new framework for belief change. Our basic notion is that of a contextual topic: we suppose that we can associate a set of topics with every agent, speech...

It is proposed that the reciprocation of interpersonal attraction is a multifaceted process involving affective, cognitive, and behavioral elements, and that reciprocation can be interpreted using interdependence theory. Two studies investigated whether expressed attraction implies benevolent intentions and whether such intentions are differentially critical to reciprocated affective and behavi...

After a 20-year focus on the water channel aquaporin (work for which he shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Peter Agre has turned his attention to malaria. He currently serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. The full interview, wherein Agre (Figure 1) displays his witty sense of humor, including vignettes related to running for Senate, dancing to the Buena Vi...

Factors that enhance the perceived adequacy of explanations for bad news were examined in three studies: two cross-sectional surveys and a simulation experiment. All studies found that the specificity of the explanation's substance accounted for more variance in judgments of explanation adequacy than did the interpersonal sensitivity of the explanation's delivery. Moderators of the relationship...

237 THE TITLE OF THIS EDITORIAL SUFFERS, perhaps, from my weakness for witty language; nonetheless, as you will see, it is not insincere. The early life of virtually everyone in the industrialized world consists of—indeed, is dominated by—a seemingly unending sequence of submissions to evaluation by one’s elders and supposed betters. In most walks of life, the character of this sequence shifts ...

We consider agents having multiple communication sessions at the same time. We assume that FIPA semantics of agent communication languages can still be used when we attribute mental attitudes for each session, which we call the roles of the agents, and we assume that we have to distinguish the mental attitudes attributed to the roles from the mental attitudes of the agents. We consider several ...

Electronic communities are relying increasingly on the results of continuous polls to rate the effectiveness of their members and offerings. Sites such as eBay and Amazon solicit feedback about merchants and products, with prior feedback and results-to-date available to participants before they register their approval ratings. In such a setting, participants are understandably prone to exaggera...