Understand before you sign

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem."

Before you sign that office lease.

If you build it, people will come. That may have been good advice for Kevin Costner in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, but building a new office, or even purchasing one, may not make sense for your particular practice at this particular time. (See “Leasing vs. buying” on page 19.) If leasing is the best choice for your practice, here’s what you need to consider before you sign on the dotted line.

To Understand Your Understanding, You Must Understand What Understanding Means

Although critical for the regulation of many reading and studying behaviors, metacomprehension accuracy is generally observed to be quite low. The present research examined how metacomprehension accuracy would be affected by practice tests designed to give readers expectations about the kind of tests they would be given, and self-explanation instructions to give readers access to valid cues for...

Whisper before you go.

Surgeons share their challenges and dilemmas in making ethical decisions in these twelve personal stories. The three commentary articles draw out the lessons the stories address. The commentators come from diverse backgrounds including sociology, bioethics, nursing, and surgery.

Read Before You Cite!

Many psychological tests have the so-called “lie-scale.” A small but sufficient number of questions that admit only one true answer, such as: “Do you always reply to letters immediately after reading them?” are inserted among others that are central to the particular test. A wrong reply for such a question adds a point on the lie-scale, and when the lie-score is high, the over-all test results ...