Quantifying behavior is a challenge for scientists studying neuroscience, ethology,
psychology, pathology, etc. Until now, behavior was mostly considered as qualitative …

Effective communication is essential in today's health care environment, and poor
communication can lead to conflict among health care providers. Differences in cultures and …

Operating rooms (ORs) are inhabited by hierarchical, mixed-gender clinical teams that are
often prone to conflict. In evolutionary terms, one expects more within-than between-gender …

Are individuals willing to intervene in public violence? Half a century of research on the
“bystander effect” suggests that the more bystanders present at an emergency, the less likely …

Background Tense communication and disruptive behaviors during surgery have often been
attributed to surgeons' personality or hierarchies, while situational triggers for tense …

Where are the observations in psychology? Recurrent criticisms have been addressed to
psychology for its excessive focus on hypothesis testing, and its disregard for the descriptive …

Objective: Workplace aggression is a harmful occupational hazard, which has been
associated with individual-and organizational-level risk factors. By comparison, little is …

Objective Effective teamwork is critical to patient safety across multiple healthcare settings.
However, current observational tools assessing teamwork performance tend to be …

Most countries in the world have recommended or mandated face masks in some or all
public places during the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, mask use has been thought to …

Previous research has postulated effects of environmental stress on ingroup/outgroup
thinking: The higher the pathogenic risk and the perceived vulnerability to it, the higher the …