Cultural variations in whether, why, how, and at what cost people are proactive: A followership perspective

On advocacy by environmental scientists: what, whether, why, and how.

Debate about the nature and appropriateness of advocacy by environmental scientists is important--it represents understanding the role of these citizens in our society. Much has been written about advocacy by scientists, and that literature describes substantial diversity in reasons why advocacy by scientists is or is not appropriate. Despite the nature of this literature there has been no comp...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Reflection in Nursing Education: Why and How?

Introduction: Nursing education should develop autonomy, critical thinking, open-mindedness and sensitivity to others. Reflection seems to be an effective strategy for developing such capabilities in nursing. Therefore, this narrative review study was carried out to explore reflection in nursing education. Methods: Using keywords like reflecting, reflection and nursing reflection, FarsiandEngl...

Why are some people left-handed? An evolutionary perspective.

Since prehistoric times, left-handed individuals have been ubiquitous in human populations, exhibiting geographical frequency variations. Evolutionary explanations have been proposed for the persistence of the handedness polymorphism. Left-handedness could be favoured by negative frequency-dependent selection. Data have suggested that left-handedness, as the rare hand preference, could represen...

Why are people bad at detecting randomness? A statistical analysis

Errors in detecting randomness are often understood in terms of biases and misconceptions, but we propose and provide evidence for a nested-process account that characterizes the contribution of the inherent statistical difficulty of the problem. The account uses a Bayesian statistical analysis to reveal that a random process is contained or nested within a range of systematic processes. The co...