Few issues in health care spark as much ire and angst as medical-malpractice litigation. Physicians revile malpractice claims as random events that visit unwarranted expense and emotional pain on competent, hardworking practitioners. Commentators lament the “lawsuit lottery,” which provides windfalls for some patients, but no compensation for the vast majority of patients injured by medical car...

IPCCC 2011 consists of two keynote talks, both by distinguished researchers, a main conference with two parallel tracks, a poster session, and a workshop. I would like to thank our distinguished keynote speakers, our excellent technical program co-chairs and technical program committee members, our hardworking organizing committee members for all their hard work for the conference. Without them...

The present article examines factors that influence why students post information on their social network profile which employers would find inappropriate. Results show that many students make a conscious attempt to portray a particular image and, as predicted, their intended image was related to whether they posted inappropriate information. Those who believed they portrayed a hardworking imag...

In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for category immigrant and 30 additional groups with (e.g. “undocumented immigrant”) reflecting various levels status. Using Meaning Extraction Method (MEM) factor analysis...

During sentence processing, whether pragmatic information is integrated immediately and automatically or at a delay is a subject of debate in experimental pragmatics. One test case is that of scalar implicatures, which occur in statements like "some of the students are hardworking", which have both a logical meaning ("at least one is hardworking") and a pragmatic meaning ("not all of them are h...