Tarsal coalition resection in children: Is it effective?

Tarsal coalitions in children are a group of disorders that typically present as a rigid flatfoot deformity. Operative treatment generally consists of resecting the coalition alone or resection plus flatfoot reconstructive procedures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate and risk factors for complications, including infection, recurrence, and reoperation, following the surgical management of tarsal coalitions in children.

Democrats are better than Republicans at discerning true and false news but do not have better metacognitive awareness.

Insight into one's own cognitive abilities is one important aspect of metacognition. Whether this insight varies between groups when discerning true and false information has yet to be examined. We investigated whether demographics like political partisanship and age were associated with discernment ability, metacognitive efficiency, and response bias for true and false news.

Discrediting health disinformation sources: Advantages of highlighting low expertise.

Disinformation is false information spread intentionally, and it is particularly harmful for public health. We conducted three preregistered experiments ( = 1,568) investigating how to discredit dubious health sources and disinformation attributed to them. Experiments 1 and 2 used cancer information and recruited representative U.

A pilot study investigating the effect of the BEGIN psychoeducation intervention for people at clinical high risk for psychosis on emotional and stigma-related experiences.

Aim: There is concern that the provision of the clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) label is stigmatizing. Prior research suggests people have nuanced reactions to feedback involving the CHR label, including a positive experience receiving feedback and improvement in negative emotions (e.g.