The Stroop effect is psychology’s classic measure gauging the selectivity of attention to individual attributes of complex stimuli. The emotional Stroop effect gauges the influence on behavior of threat and emotional stimuli. The former taps central/executive processes abstracted from particular stimulus contexts, whereas the latter taps automatic processes inextricably linked to particular sti...

Purpose: A progressive decrease in androgen production is common in males after middle age. The resulting clinical picture has been erroneously named male menopause or andropause. A more appropriate designation is androgen decline in the aging male (ADAM). The syndrome is characterized by alterations in the physical and intellectual domains that correlate with and can be corrected by manipulati...

A recent article calculates new benchmarks from the distribution of effect sizes in a dataset, without accounting for signed values or sampling appropriately. In addition, focus-narrowing approach it takes does little to address issues highlighted about value size policy.

This article argues against the term and concept of ‘hate speech’ in favour using ‘discriminatory speech’. ‘Hate is a misnomer; we should name harmful speech question by what it fact does: discriminates. The for this conceptual replacement claim identifying number functions has been meant to serve arguing that extant concepts hate have not served function well. Roughly, they do well because fiv...

We read with interest the recent letter to the editor entitled “Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Time to Replace a Misnomer” published by Wahl et al. We congratulate the authors for their study based on interviewing new patients and opening again the debate for the name of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). The authors concluded that it is time to replace this misnomer with an adequate name for the dis...