On the role of analytic thinking in religious belief change: Evidence from over 50,000 participants in 16 countries.

Religious beliefs are among the most ubiquitous ideological beliefs in the world and often critical to people's worldview. Nonetheless, there is a great deal of variability in the strength and persistence of such beliefs, both across and within cultures. Here, we are interested in what underlying cognitive processes are associated with the phenomena of religious belief change.

Academics are more specific, and practitioners more sensitive, in forecasting interventions to strengthen democratic attitudes.

Concern over democratic erosion has led to a proliferation of proposed interventions to strengthen democratic attitudes in the United States. Resource constraints, however, prevent implementing all proposed interventions. One approach to identify promising interventions entails leveraging domain experts, who have knowledge regarding a given field, to forecast the effectiveness of candidate interventions.

Development and testing of methods to record and follow up spells in patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood.

Background: Developing methods to record Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC) spells is essential for clinical trials and patient care.

Objectives: Test the following hypotheses: 1) Video-library training improves participants' ability to correctly identify AHC spells. 2) A custom-designed event-calendar with weekly reviews results in consistent documentation of such events over time.