Volume 2 Issue 1

Are We Meeting Best Practice Standards?: A Longitudinal Analysis of Mental Health Practices Within the Florida Child Welfare System with Implications for Child Well-being

Daniel Dunleavy

Best practice standards are one method by which medical providers ensure effective care, thus promoting well-being. Though formal guidelines have been recently implemented to direct and standardize children’s mental healthcare in Florida, little research has evaluated the extent to which they are…

Systemic Problems in Academia: The Positive Publication Bias and Solutions from a Human Factors Perspective

Stefan Gaillard & Sean Devine

It will come as no surprise to readers of this journal that failure is systematically ignored in academia. The entire culture of academia revolves around a notion of linear progress made in leaps and bounds by great thinkers, rather than the more realistic image of science as an ongoing process of…

Do Carryover Effects Influence Attentional Bias to Threat in the Dot-Probe Task?

Joshua W. Maxwell, Lin Fang & Joshua M. Carlson

Threatening stimuli are often thought to have sufficient potency to bias attention, relative to neutral stimuli. Researchers and clinicians opt for frequently used paradigms to measure such bias, such as the dot-probe task. Bias to threat in the dot-probe task is indicated by a congruency effect…

Communication Circuits and Inequalities of Health: A Case of Greenlanders in Denmark

Daria Schwalbe

Discourses surrounding migration and integration often see language, and in particular the knowledge of the native language, as a crucial barrier to minorities’ access to healthcare and welfare benefits, equal healthcare treatment, social integration, and psychological wellbeing. Using methods of…

Classical Conditioning for Pain: The Development of a Customized Single-Case Experimental Design

Tamal Kumar De, Victoria J. Madden, Johan W. S. Vlaeyen & Patrick Onghena

Single-case experiments are increasingly popular in the behavioral sciences. Due to their flexibility, single-case designs can be customized to test a variety of experimental hypotheses. We were interested in using a single-case experimental approach to test whether pain thresholds can be influenced…

Neurological Markers of Maladaptive Brain Activity in Fibromyalgia and their Relationship with Treatment Effectiveness

Elia Valentini

Chronic pain (CP) is estimated to affect at least one-third of the population in the United Kingdom. Fibromyalgia (FM) is one of the most disabling CP conditions. Epidemiological research suggests its global prevalence to be between 2-8%. The unknown pathogenesis, lack of biological markers to…

Cognition stays wild: A commentary on Ross and Vallée-Tourangeau’s Rewilding Cognition

Vlad P. Glăveanu & Alex Gillespie

A “failed” experiment (Ross & Vallée-Tourangeau, 2021 ) tried to reveal the role played by materiality in solving an insight problem that made reference to embodied action, leading to valuable insights about the nature of cognition and the experimental method. In this commentary, we argue that this…

The Unsuccessful Self-treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block’: A Replication in Science Education

Georgios Ampatzidis

The Gloria Adherence Subproject: Problems and Randomization Mistakes

Linda Hartman, Marc R. Kok, Esmeralda Molenaar, Ed N. Griep, Jaap M. Van Laar, Jan Maarten Van Woerkom, Cornelia F. Allaart, Hennie G. Raterman, Yvonne P. M. Ruiterman, Marieke J. H. Voshaar, João Redol, Rui M. A. Pinto, L. Thomas Klausch, Willem F. Lems & Maarten Boers

Medication adherence, which is the extent to which patients take their medication as prescribed, is essential in treating chronic inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, we nested a subproject in the two-year multicenter Glucocorticoid Low-dose Outcome in Rheumatoid…

Real-effort survey designs: Open-ended questions to overcome the challenge of measuring behavior in surveys

Caroline Fischer

Based on data triangulation, open-ended questions can be used to overcome a typical problem with data collection using surveys: Human behavior can only be captured as stated or intended, but not as real behavior. In this study on knowledge sharing in the workplace, a quantitative measure of…

Rewilding Cognition: Complex Dynamics in Open Experimental Systems

Wendy Ross & Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau

Insight problems are sometimes designed to encourage an incorrect and misleading interpretation that veils a simple answer. The socks problem is one such problem: Given black socks and brown socks in a drawer mixed in a ratio of four to five, how many socks will you have to take out to make sure…

Ponies, Joints, Complexity, and the Method of Difference

Hubertus Nederbragt

An important topic in biomedical science is the repair of damaged organs by in vitro cultured differentiated stem cells. This article evaluates an article in this field, entitled "The complexity of joint regeneration", by Diloksumpan et al. (2021) , who described a regeneration experiment of…

The Complexity of Joint Regeneration: How an Advanced Implant Could Fail by Its In Vivo Proven Bone Component

Paweena Diloksumpan, Florencia Abinzano, Mylène de Ruijter, Anneloes Mensinga, Saskia Plomp, Ilyas Khan, Harold Brommer, Ineke Smit, Miguel Dias Castilho, P. René van Weeren, Jos Malda & Riccardo Levato

Articular cartilage damage is a major challenge in healthcare due to the lack of long-term repair options. There are several promising regenerative implant-based approaches for the treatment, but the fixation of the implant remains a significant challenge. This study evaluated the potential for…