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A closer look at civic honesty in collectivist cultures Open

David Tannenbaum, Michel André Maréchal, Alain Cohn · 2023

Yang and colleagues (hereafter YAC) conducted a replication and extension of our lost wallet study in China (1, 2).They argue that in collectivist cultures, civic honesty manifests as holding onto a wallet for safekeeping, without contacti…

Random Error can Explain the Illusion of Diversity Open

David Tannenbaum · 2023

Kardosh et al. (2022; PNAS) present data for an “illusion of diversity” in which participants tend to overestimate the prevalence of minority social groups and underestimate the prevalence of majority social groups. I provide data suggesti…

Math processing by detection of elementary valued operands Open

Daniel Finchelstein, David Tannenbaum, Srinivasan Vasu Iyer · 2023

One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for simplifying arithmetic operations by detecting operands with elementary values such as zero or 1.0. Computer and graphics processing systems perform a great number of multiply-a…

Choosing more aggressive commitment contracts for others than for the self Open

Craig I. Brimhall, David Tannenbaum, Eric M. VanEpps · 2023

Commitment contracts are a strategy for binding self-control failures, such as skipping a gym visit or breaking a dieting regime, to monetary penalties. Despite evidence that commitment contracts with stronger penalties improve self-contro…

What Do Cross-Country Surveys Tell Us about Social Capital? Open

David Tannenbaum, Alain Cohn, Christian Zünd, Michel André Maréchal · 2022

We assess the predictive power of survey measures of social capital with a new behavioral data set that examines whether citizens report a lost wallet to its owner. Using data from more than 17,000 lost wallets across 40 countries, we find…

Replication Data for: What do cross-country surveys tell us about social capital? Open

David Tannenbaum, Alain Cohn, Christian Zünd, Michel André Maréchal · 2022

Code and data to reproduce all results and graphs reported in Tannenbaum et al. (2022). This folder contains data files (.dta files) and a Stata do-file (code.do) that stitches together the different data files and executes all analyses an…

Do Registered Reports Make Scientific Findings More Believable to the Public? Open

Elaine Cristina Rodrigues da Costa, Yoel Inbar, David Tannenbaum · 2022

Registered reports are an important initiative to improve the methodological rigor and transparency of scientific studies. One possible benefit of registered reports is that they may increase public acceptance of controversial research fin…

Development and evaluation of a primary care antimicrobial stewardship program (PC-ASP) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Open

Warren J. McIsaac, Arrani Senthinathan, Rahim Moineddin, Yoshiko Nakamachi, Linda Dresser , et al. · 2021

Background: Effective community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are needed because 90% of antimicrobials are prescribed in the community. A primary care ASP (PC-ASP) was evaluated for its effectiveness in lowering antibioti…

Ambiguity Aversion and Epistemic Uncertainty Open

Craig R. Fox, Michael Goedde‐Menke, David Tannenbaum · 2021

Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of an antimicrobial stewardship program in primary care: A qualitative study Open

Lianne Jeffs, Warren J. McIsaac, Michelle Zahradnik, Arrani Senthinathan, Linda Dresser , et al. · 2020

The overuse of antimicrobials in primary care can be linked to an increased risk of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria for individual patients. Although there are promising signs of the benefits associated with Antimicrobial Stewardship Prog…

What Do Lost Wallets Tell Us About Survey Measures of Social Capital? Open

David Tannenbaum, Alain Cohn, Christian Zünd, Michel André Maréchal · 2020

What Do Lost Wallets Tell Us About Survey Measures of Social Capital? Open

David Tannenbaum, Alain Cohn, Christian Zünd, Michel André Maréchal · 2020

Investment Behaviors Under Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty Open

Daniel J. Walters, Gülden Ülkümen, David Tannenbaum, Carsten Erner, Craig R. Fox · 2020

Is postgraduate leadership education a match for the wicked problems of health systems leadership? A critical systematic review Open

Betty Onyura, Sara Crann, David Tannenbaum, Mary Kay Whittaker, Stuart Murdoch , et al. · 2019

Purpose There have been a growing number of leadership education programs for physicians. However, debates about the value and efficacy of leadership education in medicine persist, and there are calls for systematic and critical perspectiv…

The times, are they a-changin'? Open

Paul Rainsberry, Louise Nasmith, W. Wayne Weston, Nick Busing, Nancy Fowler , et al. · 2018

This year we celebrate an important anniversary. Forty years ago, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) established the Section of Teachers of Family Medicine (SOT) as a national home for family medicine teachers and the academ…

Thinking More or Feeling Less? Explaining the Foreign-Language Effect on Moral Judgment Open

Sayuri Hayakawa, David Tannenbaum, Albert Costa, Joanna D. Corey, Boaz Keysar · 2017

Would you kill one person to save five? People are more willing to accept such utilitarian action when using a foreign language than when using their native language. In six experiments, we investigated why foreign-language use affects mor…

Data from a pre-publication independent replication initiative examining ten moral judgement effects Open

Warren Tierney, Martin Schweinsberg, Jennifer Jordan, Deanna M. Kennedy, Israr Qureshi , et al. · 2016

The pipeline project: Pre-publication independent replications of a single laboratory's research pipeline Open

Martin Schweinsberg, Nikhil Madan, Michelangelo Vianello, S. Amy Sommer, Jennifer Jordan , et al. · 2016

This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Ou…

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