Where to keep information about others?

Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises.

Promises are speech acts that create an obligation to do the promised action. In three studies, we investigated whether 3- and 5-year-olds (N=278) understand the normative implications of promising in prosocial interactions. In Study 1, children helped a partner who promised to share stickers. When the partner failed to uphold the promise, 3- and 5-year-olds protested and referred to promise no...

Modeling how humans reason about others with partial information

Computer agents participate in many collaborative and competitive multiagent domains in which humans make decisions. For computer agents to interact successfully with people in such environments, an understanding of human reasoning is beneficial. In this paper, we investigate the question of how people reason strategically about others under uncertainty and the implications of this question for...

Providing patients with information about treatment choices: do unto others?

A variety of internal and external pressures may lead psychiatrists to promote intensive or intrusive treatments. However, when asked what treatment they would want for themselves they seem more likely to opt for less intensive treatments or no treatment at all. These differences highlight the importance of providing patients with enough information to enable them to make a fully informed choic...

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Endoscopic Ultrasound: Reaching Where Others Can’t

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has been increasingly used for the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer. It has recently become the modality of choice in assessing pancreatic lesions overcoming other traditional modalities. Typically lesions located at the tail of the pancreas are best accessed through the stomach. We present a patient with pancreatic tail mass occurring in the setting of a l...