INTRODUCTION Many women experience improved sexual function after hysterectomy. However, a sizeable minority of women report worsened sexual function after the surgery, and concerns about the effect of surgery on sexual function are common among women planning to undergo hysterectomy. AIM The present study examined the role of education about the potential sexual consequences of hysterectomy ...

background and objects the patient’s age at the first hypospadias repair may be an important factor for determining postoperative outcomes. age at the first procedure differs between western countries and medical centers in china. this review examines the differences between the incidence of surgical complications and surgical age in boys receiving hypospadias repairs in north america, europe a...

The sense of agency (SoA), a feeling of “I am moving on myself”, is strengthened with high predictability, and attenuated with negative outcomes. The latter might happen because participants usually expect positive outcomes. In the current experiment, we examined the hypothesis that SoA against negative outcomes would be strengthened when participants expect negative outcomes. In a trial, voice...

In contingency judgment tasks (CJT) people typically overestimate their control over an outcome. We hypothesized that this outcome density effect (a type of illusion of control) may be due to an attentional bias toward positive outcomes, which may lead one to ignore negative outcomes and thus to underestimate their occurrence. In order to directly test this hypothesis, we manipulated the outcom...