Drawing on alternative perspectives about the automaticity of dispositional judgments, we examine whether the motivation to attract the other (i.e., selling orientation) in interpersonal first meetings (e.g., job interviews) helps or hinders the accuracy and validity of dispositional judgments. In a laboratory study (Study 1) we found that selling orientation reduced the accuracy of interviewer...

Both virtual and embodied intelligent agents are being designed and deployed in multi-user situations, and we join this research effort by proposing a series of research projects that aim to design and build a meeting facilitation agent. The agent should be able to facilitate the right activities, in the right way, and at the right moment. Our designs are informed by humanhuman group meeting th...

PURPOSE Continuity of care among different clinicians refers to consistent and coherent care management and good measures are needed. We conducted a metasummary of qualitative studies of patients' experience with care to identify measurable elements that recur over a variety of contexts and health conditions as the basis for a generic measure of management continuity. METHODS From an initial ...

The SPURS Intern will be assigned to work closely with an advanced post-doctoral, senior member of a laboratory. Since the SPURS Intern will have already established a substantial interest in biomedical research and will have significant prior experience in laboratory investigation, it is anticipated that the emphasis will be on training in novel techniques specific to the proposed research pro...

UNLABELLED : Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is increasingly required, although evidence to inform its implementation is limited. OBJECTIVE Inform the evidence base by describing how plans for PPI were implemented within clinical trials and identifying the challenges and lessons learnt by research teams. METHODS We compared PPI plans extracted from clinical trial grant appl...

This paper will investigate several models of compensation and reward systems that have been utilized to foster increased productivity in online activity. The following issues will be discussed in the paper: Compensation based on a per student basis vs on a course basis The course as part of a faculty member's full-time load or as part of an overload Use of course remissions as an incentive to ...

OBJECTIVES Tuberculosis cohort audit (TBCA) was introduced across the North West (NW) of England in 2012 as an ongoing, multidisciplinary, systematic case review process, designed to improve clinical and public health practice. TBCA has not previously been introduced across such a large and socioeconomically diverse area in England, nor has it undergone formal, qualitative evaluation. This stud...

P LoS was founded in October 2000 not as a publisher, but as a grassroots movement of researchers who believed that the results of the global research enterprise should be a freely available public resource. So why did PLoS become a publisher, and what are we doing in this role to serve the world's varying biomedical researchers and clinicians? At its inception, the fi rst action by PLoS was to...