Computers, psychology, and work: Does the past predict a troubled future for this union?

Computers-Small computers: Past, present, and future.

In this presentation I will try to review some of the progress in the computing field over the last 10 or 12 years, especially in the minicomputer and small computer area-that is, desk-top and hand-held machines. Then, on the basis of this progress and what we already know about further developments in microelectronics, I would like to offer some predictions of things to come in the decade ahea...

Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future

What is positive psychology? Where has it come from? Where is it going? These are the questions we address in this article. In defining positive psychology, we distinguish between the meta-psychological level, where the aim of positive psychology is to redress the imbalance in psychology research and practice, and the pragmatic level, which is concerned with what positive psychologists do, in t...

Using the past to predict the future.

This research addressed three issues. First, we examined whether retrospective confidence judgments (RCJs) and judgments of learning (JOLs) assess memory differently. Second, we examined the relative accuracy of JOLs and RCJs at predicting future recall performance. Third, we examined whether making JOLs improves subsequent recall better than making RCJs or making no metacognitive judgment. Res...

Antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery: does the past predict the future?

Giorgio Zanetti and Richard Platt Service of Infectious Diseases and Division of Hospital Hygiene, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Eastern Massachusetts Centers for Disease Control and P...

Reverse Remodeling: Does This Work?