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Outcomes of a Third Bariatric Procedure for Inadequate Weight Loss

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The robust volume of bariatric surgical procedures has led to significant numbers of patients requiring reoperative surgery because of undesirable results from primary operations. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility, safety, and outcomes of the third bariatric procedure after previous attempts resulted in inadequate results. METHODS We retrospectively...

Reply to Sanchez Escobedo and Hollingworth: Why the Mexican Norms for the WAIS-III continue to be inadequate.

The discussion in Drs. Sanchez Escobedo and Hollingworth's paper independently confirms virtually all our observations regarding the psychometric and interpretive deficiencies of the Mexican norms for very high-stakes decisions, such as that involved in an Atkins hearing. Test publishers have an ethical obligation to caution potential users against the premature use of a developing assessment t...

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Intention invention and the affect misattribution procedure: reply to Bar-Anan and Nosek (2012).

A recent study of the affect misattribution procedure (AMP) found that participants who retrospectively reported that they intentionally rated the primes showed larger effect sizes and higher reliability. The study concluded that the AMP's validity depends on intentionally rating the primes. We evaluated this conclusion in three experiments. First, larger effect sizes and higher reliability wer...