Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. At The ER, It’s Hurry Up And Wait At least the patients mentioned in “As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice” (May 17) were allowed to […]

People faced with more options than they can effectively consider want to make a good decision, but feel they’re unable to do so, according to the results of a novel study. Despite the apparent opportunities presented by a lot of options, the need to choose creates a ‘paralyzing paradox,’ according to the authors. ‘You want […]

We often look to people’s faces for signs of how they’re thinking or feeling, trying to gauge whether their eyes are narrowed or widened, whether the mouth is turned up or down. But new findings show that facial features aren’t the only source of this information — we also draw social inferences from the head […]