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The Politics of Ethics: Can Honesty Cross Over Political Polarization?

Journalism and Media
This research demonstrates how confirmation and disconfirmation biases manifest based on individuals’ political affiliations when processing a self-disclosure message in the context of a political crisis. An experiment presented a crisis message in which
Sang Lee, Samar Ben Romdhane
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Voter Confirmation Bias and Electoral Accountability [PDF]

, 2015
This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician’s actions are observable before the election, we ...
Lockwood, Benjamin
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The science of psychoanalysis [PDF]

, 2018
For psychoanalysis to qualify as scientific psychology, it needs to generate data that can evidentially support theoretical claims. Its methods, therefore, must at least be capable of correcting for biases produced in the data during the process of ...
Lacewing, Michael
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Gut microbiota diversity is prognostic in metastatic hormone receptor‐positive breast cancer patients receiving chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In this exploratory study, we investigated the relationship between the gut microbiota and outcome in patients with metastatic hormone receptor‐positive breast cancer, treated in a randomized clinical trial with chemotherapy alone or chemotherapy in combination with immune checkpoint blockade.
Andreas Ullern, Kristian Holm, Nikolai Kragøe Andresen, Andreas Hagen Røssevold, Corinna Bang, Bjørn Naume, Johannes R. Hov, Jon Amund Kyte   +7 more
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Selective information sampling: Cognitive coherence in evaluation of a novel item

Judgment and Decision Making, 2009
This study investigates the amount and valence of information selected during single item evaluation. One hundred and thirty-five participants evaluated a cell phone by reading hypothetical customers reports. Some participants were first asked to provide
Peter A. F. Fraser-Mackenzie, Itiel E. Dror   +1 more
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Patient‐specific pharmacogenomics demonstrates xCT as predictive therapeutic target in colon cancer with possible implications in tumor connectivity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study integrates transcriptomic profiling of matched tumor and healthy tissues from 32 colorectal cancer patients with functional validation in patient‐derived organoids, revealing dysregulated metabolic programs driven by overexpressed xCT (SLC7A11) and SLC3A2, identifying an oncogenic cystine/glutamate transporter signature linked to ...
Marco Strecker, Keren Zohar, Martin Böttcher, Thomas Wartmann, Henry Freudenstein, Maximilian Doelling, Mihailo Andric, Wenjie Shi, Or Kakhlon, Katrin Hippe, Beatrix Jahnke, Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Franziska Baenke, Daniel Stange, Roland S. Croner, Michal Linial, Ulf D. Kahlert   +16 more
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Confirmation Bias Analysis of Religious Intolerance Trends: A Study of the Views of Lecturers at Religious-Based Universities in Yogyakarta

Gema Teologika
Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis peran Bias Konfirmasi dalam menentukan sikap dan perilaku intoleransi beragama menurut dosen universitas agama di Yogyakarta.
Endah Setyowati, Hendra Sigalingging
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Estimation of ascertainment bias and its effect on power in clinical trials with time-to-event outcomes

, 2020
While the gold standard for clinical trials is to blind all parties -- participants, researchers, and evaluators -- to treatment assignment, this is not always a possibility.
Dziura, J., Esserman, D., Greene, E. J., Meng, C., Miller, M. E., Peduzzi, P., Travison, T. G.   +6 more
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero, Ane Martinez‐Larrinaga, Joaquim Grego‐Bessa, Saioa Garcia‐Longarte, Hielke van Splunder, Ianire Astobiza, Amaia Ercilla, Laura Bozal‐Basterra, Isabel Mendizabal, Pilar Villacampa, Arkaitz Carracedo, Mariona Graupera   +11 more
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Reverse spin bias: preliminary observations of reporting bias in medical systematic reviews

Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background While conducting an umbrella review of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, we observed that in many instances, systematic review authors reported findings favorable to the treatment, yet they declined to recommend it or recommended against it ...
Renée O’Leary, Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa, Riccardo Polosa   +2 more
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