☆ The authors are grateful to Li Qingyang, James Z with data collection, and to Jun Yu and an anonymou the Centre for International Governance Innovation lisches Wilhelms Universität Münster, the June 2011 and Financial Econometrics, the 2011 Western Econo nance Association Conference in Macau — where thi ⁎ Corresponding author at: Wilfrid Laurier Univers E-mail address: [email protected] (P.L. Si...

University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA. Fiona R Lake, MD, FRACP, Associate Professor in Medicine and Medical Education, Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry; Jeffrey M Hamdorf, PhD, FRACS, Associate Professor in Surgical Education, School of Surgery and Pathology. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Fiona R Lake, Education C...

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The concept of change simply entails the totality of ways in which a particular entity has grown better and grown worse. Five studies suggest that this is not how people actually understand it for themselves. Rather, when asked to assess how they have "changed" over time, people bring to mind only how they have improved and neglect other trajectories (e.g., decline) that they have also experien...

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