Studying a Heterogeneous Array of Target Groups Can Help Us Understand Prejudice

How can studying psychopaths help us understand the neural mechanisms of moral judgment?

There is growing interest in the neural basis of human moral cognition, in hopes that neuroscience can help to explain the general process of moral judgment. The role of emotion and cognition in moral judgment has yet to be determined. The study of psychopathic traits may be able to give us some insight into this because of their deficits in emotional responding. Our recent publication in Molec...

Can personality theory help us understand risk of falls?

Falling is one of the greatest challenges of aging, devastating for older individuals and expensive to the health system. While much research to date has focused on physical risk factors for falls, little is known about behavioral risk factors and the role of personality in the prevention of falls. This article examines the potential role personality theory can play in expanding our understandi...

Can Thomas Kuhn's paradigms help us understand software engineering?

Recent articles in EJIS have discussed whether or not Information Systems is a ‘discipline’. In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn states that a scientific discipline can be identified by reference to its underlying belief system, the ‘paradigm’ or ‘disciplinary matrix’, to which all workers in that field must commit. An important element of Kuhn's model is the notion of ‘scientific ...

How can Sodium MRI techniques help us understand acute stroke?

This article addresses the potential usefulness of sodium MRI in the acute phase of stroke, asking whether the additional time required to acquire high quality sodium images is justified in the time-critical minutes following the presentation of a patient with symptoms. It begins with a description of the pathophysiology of stroke and the implications of the increasing bioenergetic failure on t...

Can Bohmian Quantum Information Help us to Understand Consciousness?