OBJECTIVE To determine barriers and facilitating factors to skin cancer screening practices among US primary care physicians and dermatologists. DESIGN Survey. SETTING Physicians randomly selected from the American Medical Association's Medical Marketing Services database from April 1 through November 30, 2005. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2999 US dermatologists, family practitioners, and inte...

Giffen goods have long been a minor embarrassment to courses in microeconomic theory. The standard approach has been to dismiss Giffen goods as a theoretical curiosity without empirical content. This note points out that the underlying theory is itself seriously flawed.

EMOTLAB software creates a virtual social environment in which individuals interact via computer with a virtual interaction partner in a series of economic bargaining games. The virtual partner appears on the participant's computer screen as a digital image (e.g., video or picture file) during each trial. A key feature of EMOTLAB software is its ability to control both the strategic behavior an...

Traditional quality control methods identify "variation" as the enemy. However, the control of variation by itself can never achieve the remarkably low non-conformance rates of world class quality leaders. Because the control of variation does not achieve the highest levels of quality, an inordinate focus on these techniques obscures key quality improvement opportunities and results in unnecess...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory study was to develop a theoretical model that explains women's processes of managing diagnosed depression when pregnant. METHODS We explored the experiences of 19 women in Ontario who were diagnosed with depression during their pregnancy. RESULTS The model that emerged from the analysis was becoming the best mom that I can. Becom...

A group may be badly affected if its leader transgresses important rules. Nonetheless, an emerging body of evidence suggests that in intergroup contexts, group members apply a double standard when judging ingroup leaders - They respond less punitively to transgressions by their leader than by non-leaders. In this article, two experiments investigated how proportionate ingroup size affects react...

QUESTION One of my patients gave birth to a baby later diagnosed with HIV infection. I did not offer this patient HIV screening, as I thought she was at low risk. What are the recommendations for HIV testing and what might be the implications of not screening for HIV? ANSWER Although screening is currently recommended by all relevant authorities in Canada, more than 10% of women are not scree...

We are interested in embarrassing interactions as part of wider research that explores digital games in our public spaces through a lens of play. Embarrassing interactions are an important feature of play and an inevitable facet of pervasive games. In this abstract we discuss several inspirational designs where a wide range of play includes opportunity to explore, manage and leverage embarrassm...

incomplete. I’d ask that you not circulate it, so as to limit the scope of my potential embarrassment. I apologize for not yet including full citations, but I promise I’m not making it (all) up. I also expect to have a more complete draft by the time of the conference, which I’ll happily share with anyone interested. In the meantime, this draft is far enough along for you to follow the basic pl...

The APA's Goldwater Rule, precluding psychiatrists from rendering opinions to the media about public figures whom they have not examined, has often engendered controversy. Here, I consider the justifications for the rule, how well they stand up to criticism, and the extent, if any, to which modifications might be called for. Although embarrassment to the profession is often cited as the basis f...