Publications by authors named "R B Barkan"
Background: To decipher the mechanisms underlying the protective role of the Mediterranean diet (MED) in Crohn's disease (CD), we explored the implications of adherence to MED on CD course, inflammatory markers, microbial and metabolite composition.
Methods: Patients with newly diagnosed CD were recruited and followed prospectively. MED adherence was assessed by repeated food frequency questionnaires (FFQ), using a predefined IBDMED score, alongside validated MED adherence screeners.
Self vs. Other in Affective Forecasting: The Role of Psychological Distance and Decision from Experience.
Behav Sci (Basel)
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The research explores how people differ in predicting emotional impacts when making decisions for themselves versus others, by examining psychological distance and types of decision-making (description vs. experience).
- - Two studies involved a gambling task where participants predicted outcomes and revised their decisions based on actual gains or losses, revealing an impact bias where they often overestimated the effects of outcomes on their risk-taking behavior.
- - Results showed that while people typically became more risk-averse after gains and risk-seeking after losses for themselves, their tendencies shifted differently when considering close friends, with more courageous decisions following gains and more cautious decisions after losses.
Background: Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) undergoing proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) may eventually require biologic therapy. Factors associated with biologic therapy after IPAA have not been previously studied.
Methods: All patients with UC after total proctocolectomy and IPAA who were followed at Rabin Medical Center comprehensive pouch clinic and who consented to prospective observational follow-up were included.
Upper-ocean fronts are an important component of the global climate system, regulating both the oceanic energy cycle and material transports. In the common paradigm, upper-ocean fronts are generated by frontogenesis at the mesoscale (20-300 km), driven predominantly by confluent horizontal flows initiated by a background straining field. However, the mechanisms by which this frontogenesis extends down to and influences the submesoscale (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDishonest behaviours such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex ante honesty oaths-commitments to honesty before action-have been proposed as interventions to counteract dishonest behaviour, but the heterogeneity in findings across operationalizations calls their effectiveness into question. We tested 21 honesty oaths (including a baseline oath)-proposed, evaluated and selected by 44 expert researchers-and a no-oath condition in a megastudy involving 21,506 UK and US participants from Prolific.
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