ASME – Questionnaire construction and question writing for research in medical education
This booklet describes the basic principles of questionnaire construction and design using examples applicable to research in medical education.
Nelson – On Southbound Ease and Northbound Fees: Literal Consequences of the Metaphoric Link between Vertical Position and Cardinal Direction
Subject’s consistently predicted that it costs 3x to ship materials north vs south.
Schauss – Tranquilizing Effect of Color Reduces Aggressive Behavior and Potential Violence
Viewing the color tone “Bubblegum pink” reduces a subject’s physical strength by up to 23%.
Job – Implicit Theories About Willpower Predict Self-Regulation and Grades in Everyday Life
Students with growth mindset demonstrated a full letter grade improvement in GPA.
Kray – Implicit Negotiation Beliefs and Performance: Experimental and Longitudinal Evidence
Changing one’s mindset about their abilties effect those abilities.
Loftus – Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction:An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory’
Language used in questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event.
Balas and Boren – Managing Clinical Knowledge for Health Care Improvement
The original publication of the ’17 years from evidence-based best practice to broad utilization in practice’.
Riis – The Fresh Start Effect: Temporal Landmarks Motivate Aspirational Behavior
Behavioral goal achievement is enhanced when connected to new starts and temporal landmarks such as a birthday or beginning of a new month.
Knowles – The Modern Practice of Adult Education – From Pedagogy to Andragogy
The original 1980 introduction of andragogy as the study of adult learning.
Fogg – A Behavior Model for Persuasive Design
This paper presents a new model for understanding human behavior. In this model (FBM), behavior is a product of three factors: motivation, ability, and triggers, each of which has subcomponents.
