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All articlesAmber Copeland
In this manuscript, I provide a reflection on Bartlett et al.'s (2022) study, No Meaningful Difference in Attentional Bias Between Daily and Non-Daily Smokers . I begin with an overview of attentional bias and its measurement in addiction research, followed by a summary of the study by Bartlett et…
Carsten F.J. Bakhuis & Marcel A.G. van der Heyden
In this reflection article, we evaluate a sub study of the STRIDER trial by Terstappen et al., which investigated the molecular effects of prenatal sildenafil administration in pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction (FGR). Unfortunately, this trial revealed no clinical benefit and even…
Robert P. L. Wisse
As a clinician-scientist, the journey through the PENTACON trial, a multicenter randomized clinical study comparing two surgical techniques for corneal transplantation in keratoconus patients, was both enlightening and challenging. The study, which served as the centerpiece of my PhD research in…
Folco Panizza, Thomas Camminga, Stefan Gaillard & David Joachim Grüning
Harjani et al. (2023) conducted a gamified inoculation intervention against misinformation in rural India. Despite the ingenuity of the intervention design, the study revealed no significant effects on participants' ability to detect misinformation, highlighting cultural and digital barriers to…
Martijn van der Meer
Expert endorsement seems a promising tool in countering vaccine hesitancy. Yet findings from an experiment in the United Kingdom, published in this journal, found that repeated expert‐backed “debunking” messages had little effect on vaccination intentions or behaviors. At the same time, a similar…
Anne Margit Reitsema, Sanne Nijhof & Odilia Laceulle
Part of Special Issue: Scientific Failure and Uncertainty in the Health Domain.
Stephan Schleim
Intermittent fasting has received increasing scientific and public attention in recent years. The study by Batorek et al. investigated whether time-restricted feeding, a form of intermittent fasting, improves cognitive performance and subjective-emotional well-being. This commentary discusses the…
David Grüning
Rapid technological development allows for ever new opportunities to nudge individuals’ behavior and knowledge digitally. The Gloria Adherence Subproject by Hartman et al. (2022) implements such a digital nudge via a mobile device aiming at medication adherence. Besides methodological and practical…
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…
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…
Maarten Derksen
“Trial and Error (-related negativity)” is a fascinating paper detailing the attempt to develop a new experimental paradigm to study the role of error-related negativity in the development of avoidance behavior. In my comments on this paper I will focus on the interaction between experimenters and…
Ruud Abma
A Comment on "Alcohol Cues and their Effects on Sexually Aggressive Thoughts"
