Economic experiments are often used to study if humans altruistically value the welfare of others. A canonical result from public-good games is that humans vary in how they value the welfare of others, dividing into fair-minded conditional cooperators, who match the cooperation of others, and selfish noncooperators. However, an alternative explanation for the data are that individuals vary in t...

The introduction of competency-based postgraduate medical training, as recently stimulated by national governing bodies in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and other countries, is a major advancement, but at the same time it evokes critical issues of curricular implementation. A source of concern is the translation of general competencies into the practice of clin...

BACKGROUND In this prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, we investigated the effect of pregabalin on oxycodone consumption, postoperative confusion, and pain in elderly cardiac surgery patients. METHODS Seventy patients, aged ≥75 yr, were randomized to receive either 150 mg of pregabalin before operation and 75 mg of pregabalin twice daily for 5 postoperative days o...

Our ignorance exceeds our knowledge where issues of motivation and commitment of knowledge workers are concerned in the context of knowledge management systems (KMS) implementation [1,16,17,18]. This study is motivated by the pervasive confusion about the role of knowledge workers' motivation and commitment in KMS implementation and sparse, if any, theoretical or empirical research on these iss...

This article reports findings from a program of research on the systematic influence implicitly perceived facial expressions emotions effort mobilization in cognitive tasks. Recently published implicit-affect-primes-effort (IAPE) model (Gendolla, 2012) has revealed replicated evidence for this effect: sadness, anger, fear, and happiness effort-related cardiac response during performance. In fur...