PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a definition of informal caregiving dynamics through a selective literature review and explore the proposed definition in the context of blood and marrow transplantation using a case study. DATA SOURCES Published articles. DATA SYNTHESIS Informal caregiving dynamics are commitment, expectations, and negotiation that move a dyadic informal caregiving relationshi...

This article challenges the common view that improvements in critical thinking are best pursued by investigations in informal logic. From the perspective of research in psychology and neuroscience, human inference is a process that is multimodal, parallel, and often emotional, which makes it unlike the linguistic, serial, and narrowly cognitive structure of arguments. Attempts to improve infere...