The impersonal gets personal

The genome gets personal--almost.

IT’S THE“YEAR OFPERFECTVISION,”2020.AMY,AGE21YEARS, visits with her physician and elects to have complete genome sequencing. At a follow-up visit, Amy chooses to learn of her genetic risk factors for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and colon cancer. Amy’s physician provides her with risk scores for those disorders, and with suggestions for lifestyle modifications. Specifically, Amy is a...

Dual - Process Morality and the Personal / Impersonal Distinction : A Reply

A substantial body of research supports a dual-process theory of moral judgment, according to which characteristically deontological judgments are driven by automatic emotional responses, while characteristically utilitarian judgments are driven by controlled cognitive processes. This theory was initially supported by neuroimaging and reaction time (RT) data. McGuire et al. have reanalyzed thes...

The Perception Factor: Climate Change Gets Personal

When the Going Gets Tough: Scientists’ Personal Challenges

The high risk that we take during training, when several years of work are focused on one main project that may also not work but that is decisive for the further career, was a particular challenge to me. Due to my dual career in medicine and science and also personal life circumstances, the time I could allocate for my postdoctoral research was limited. I was very worried that my project would...

I said, you said: the production effect gets personal.

Saying a word out loud makes it more memorable than simply reading it silently. This robust finding has been labeled the production effect and has been attributed to the enhanced distinctiveness of produced relative to unproduced items (MacLeod et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 671-685, 2010). Produced items have the additional information that they...