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Welcome to ResearchRaven™

Welcome to ResearchRaven™, a public service provided by the Samaritan Health Services Center for Health Research and Quality.

ResearchRaven™ is designed to advance health research, program development and scholarship by enabling users to efficiently find current information about funding opportunities, professional conferences, calls for papers and other research-related materials.

The tools and resources featured on ResearchRaven™ are collected with an eye toward the information needs of those working across the spectrum of health, medicine and science – including quality improvement, clinical and behavioral research, basic science, and public and community health.

Database Stats

11 new Conferences this week [457 total]
11 new Calls for Papers / Conferences this week [141 total]
15 new Calls for Papers / Publications this week [186 total]
1 new Leman's Lexicon this week [69 total]

Leman's Lexicon: Latest Entry

Hot Sauce Paradigm
06/12/2013

Hot Sauce Paradigm: Behavioral research on aggression sometimes requires inflicting pain or some sort of discomfort. How can one do this at an ethically acceptable level? Answer, “…hot sauce administration was effectively utilized as a measure of physical aggression” in experiments related in a 1999 paper by Joel D. Lieberman, Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Holly A. McGregor. Hot sauce is considerably less unpleasant than electrical shocks, for example. And it comes in handy when you need to determine how cruel someone can be.

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