Safety activities may provide assurance of safety even where such assurance is unwarranted. This phenomenon – which we will call “probative blindness” – is evident both in hindsight analysis of accidents and in the daily practice of safety work. The purpose of this paper is to describe the phenomenon of probative blindness. We achieve this by distinguishing probative blindness from other phenom...

THIS is an attempt to describe the disability in red-green blindness. It is not an account of the physiology of normal colour vision, nor of the abnormality of the cone cells of the retina in red-green blindness, nor of the genetics of the trait. It does not consider total colour blindness, or colour agnosia, or defects in colour memory. It must be remembered however that the trait is borne as ...

To find out the incidence of sex-linked defective color vision in people of Bathinda district in southern Punjab, a survey was planned among the school going boys using standard Ishihara’s Color Plates Chart. The present study was conducted on a total of 1,002 individuals belonging to 9 caste,11 backward caste and 5 scheduled caste endogamous groups, as well as a few from Muslim and Christian r...

BACKGROUND The phenomenon of change blindness may reflect the failure to detect the presence of change or the absence of change. Although performing the latter is considered more difficult than the former, the differential functioning of retrieval/comparison processing that leads to differences between the detection of the presence and the absence of change has not been clarified. This study ai...

Consumer choices reflect not only price and quality preferences but also social and moral values, as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products. Building on recent research on behavioral priming and moral regulation, we found that mere exposure to green products and the purchase of such products lead to markedly different behavioral...