Gruesome Descriptions Can Make Crimes Seem Worse — But Judges And Lawyers Are Immune To This Bias
By Matthew Warren
We often like to think of ourselves as impartial decision-makers — but of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Our day-to-day thoughts and behaviours are biased in all kinds of ways. But is the same true for people in the legal profession, which prides itself on its supposed objectivity and fairness?
According to a new study in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, judges and lawyers may be immune to at least some of the biases that affect the rest of us. In particular, their judgements seem less prone to the biasing effects of emotive language.
Sandra Baez from Universi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Forensic Language Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 24th 2020
We report that electrical stimulation (ES) stimulation of post-stroke aged rats led to an improved functional recovery of spatial long-term memory (T-maze), but not on the rotating pole or the inclined plane, both tests requiring complex sensorimotor skills. Surprisingly, ES had a detrimental effect on the asymmetric sensorimotor deficit.
Histologically, there was a robust increase in the number of doublecortin-positive cells in the dentate gyrus and SVZ of the infarcted hemisphere and the presence of a considerable number of neurons expressing tubulin beta III in the infarcted area. Among the genes that were unique...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Public Cannot Distinguish Between Scientific versus Unscientific, Likely Good versus Likely Bad Approaches to Longevity
One of the challenges inherent in patient advocacy for greater human longevity, for more research into aging and rejuvenation, is that journalists and the public at large either cannot or will not put in the effort needed to distinguish between: (a) scientific, plausible, and likely useful projects, those with a good expectation of addressing aging to a meaningful degree; (b) scientific, plausible, and likely unhelpful projects, those that will do little to move the needle on life expectancy, and (c) products and programs that consist of marketing, lies, and little else. This last category is depressingly large, and the fi...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Dr. Hamori Presents on Labiaplasty at International Master Class
Christine Hamori, MD, is among the experts presenting at theInternational Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS) Master Class on Vaginal Rejuvenation on August 1, 2020. Dr. Hamori ' s presentation will focus onWedge Labiaplasty andMons Pubis Rejuvenation.Other experts presenting will be: Adriana Pozzi, MD (Italy) - Anatomy of the Female Vulva: The Origin of the WorldPatricia Gutierrez-Ontalvilla, MD, PhD (Spain) - Edge Labiaplasty and Lipofilling of the Labia MajoraLina Triana, MD (Colombia) - Why Genital/Vaginal Aesthetics and Non Surgical OptionsMore information is available at theregistration link. Dr. Hamori...
Source: What's New In Plastic Surgery? - July 31, 2020 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: christine hamori wedge labiaplasty Source Type: blogs
RSC ’s FTO AUMF: LOL!
Gene HealyIn these increasingly grim Days of Rage and COVID, you have to take your laughs where you can find them, sometimes from unusual sources. It has come to my attention that the Republican Study Committee —the nearly 150‐strong caucus of House conservatives—recently released a comprehensive national security strategy entitled,“Strengthening America& Countering Global Threats.” The “product of over 1.5 years of policy development,” this 120‐page manifesto is “a conservative, solutions‐oriented plan” that “advances the interests of the American people at home and abroad,”acco...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
The WTO Needs to Drag Itself into the 21st Century
Inu ManakThe World Trade Organization (WTO) has recently been under fire. The Trump administration has called for its reform, but to date, its confrontational approach has aggravated allies and gotten in the way of any progress.Now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, work at the WTO has ground to a halt, which puts the institution at risk of irrelevance. The only multilateral talks the WTO is conducting, that is, negotiations that include the entire 164 country membership, are on eliminating harmfulfisheries subsidies. These talks are now in jeopardy. A key obstacle is an inability to find a way to conduct negotiat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
“Being Fun” Is An Important Marker Of Social Status Among Children
By Emma Young
When my 9-year-old has his best friend over to play, the house is filled with the sound of giggles. Yes, this friend plays fair, is outgoing and shares my son’s interests. But he’s also good fun.
Any parent knows that kids this age are obsessed with having fun (something that’s in short supply for many home-schoolers right now). And yet “being fun” has been overlooked as an indicator of a child’s social status, argue the authors of a new paper, published in the International Journal of Psychology. Their new studies are, they say, the first to establish it as a unique factor important ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Social Source Type: blogs
Working as a digital nomad physician practicing telemedicine while travelling the world
This is not the career path I set out to practice when I left medical school; in fact, it’s a career path that didn’t even exist. But after making a number of lifestyle choices this is where I find myself today. I am sitting writing this article from the hot, tropical lowlands of Colombia, on […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/claire-young" rel="tag" > Claire Young, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Senator Sanders Is Wrong on Cuban Education and Healthcare
Marian L. Tupy andChelsea FollettThe current frontrunner among the contenders vying to become the Democratic Party ’s presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders (D‑VT), sang Cuba’s praises in a recent60 Minutesinterview on CBS. Senator Sanders applauded Cuba ’s education and healthcare system. Potential Sanders supporters should know that Cuba’s literacy rate and healthcare system are nothing to lionize.First, consider literacy. According to Sanders, “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? ” Sanders is surely old eno...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Marian L. Tupy, Chelsea Follett Source Type: blogs
Medical Aid in Dying – Legal in 18 Jurisdictions on Earth
With Western Australia set to finalize legislation on medical aid in dying, MAID will be affirmatively legal in 18 jurisdictions on Earth:
Australia (Victoria)
Australia (Western Australia)
Belgium
Canada
Colombia
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland
Un... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 9, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Medical Aid in Dying on Earth – Legal in 18 Jurisdictions on Earth
With Western Australia set to finalize legislation on medical aid in dying, MAID will be affirmatively legal in 18 jurisdictions on Earth:
Australia (Victoria)
Australia (Western Australia)
Belgium
Canada
Colombia
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland
U... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 9, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
A clue to a cure for Alzheimer ’s disease
Are you worried about Alzheimer’s disease? Does one of your parents or siblings have the disease? If so, your risks are between two and four times that of the general public. What about people without a family history of the disease? Unfortunately, everyone is at risk for it. By age 85, half of you reading this article today will have developed Alzheimer’s disease, with or without a family history.
Sounds pretty scary, doesn’t it?
I’m writing today to give you some good news. A new study from the lab of Harvard researcher Yakeel Quiroz, PhD, has suggested a new target for drugs that might have the potential to slow...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Genes Health Healthy Aging Memory Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 25th 2019
This study demonstrates for the first time that senescent cells secrete functional LTs, significantly contributing to the LTs pool known to cause or exacerbate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Against Senolytics
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/against-senolytics/
There is no consensus in science that is so strong as to have no heretics. So here we have an interview with a naysayer on the matter of senolytic treatments, who argues that the loss of senescent cells in aged tissues will cause more harm to long-term health than the damage they will do by remaining. To be clear, I think this to be a...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
