Ruz and Lupiáñez have provided a comprehensive review of the attentional capture research and we agree with their conclusion that attentional capture is automatic by default, but can be modulated by endogenous factors. One such endogenous factor is an attentional control setting, whereby topdown processes largely determine what type of visual events will capture attention. As noted by Ruz and L...

The issue of whether people can change their sexual orientation has been obscured by moral controversy ever since homosexual orientation was “constructed” in the late nineteenth century (Bancroft, 1989, 1994). On the one hand, any evidence that such change has occurred has been used by those who condemn homosexuality as evidence of its “acquired” nature which, they would argue, is consistent wi...

This article responds to and extends the commentaries offered in response to our focal article on learning agility. After summarizing the basic themes in the commentaries, we use this response to clarify points that were unclear in our original article and push back on certain points raised in a few of the responses. In particular, we reframe the rigor–relevance debate from an ‘‘either–or’’ to ...

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Of William Heberden (1710-1801) Dr. Wells, in a letter to Lord Kenyon, wrote, 'Dr. Heberden, my Lord, stands in a manner alone in his profession. No other person, I believe, either in this or any other country, has ever exercised the art of medicine with the same dignity or has contributed so much to raise it in the estimation of mankind'. Heberden's modesty, integrity and scholarship earned hi...