There has been growing interest in the adoption of complex systems approaches to tackle major public health challenges such as obesity. This perspective redirects focus from individually oriented and ...

A press release from Robert Marzano this week claims that his new teacher evaluation model “is a research-based system for ‘causing’ increases in student achievement through incremental improvements ...

The phrase "health care delivery system" is often used in both the popular and scientific literature. However, most research only examines one aspect of the system. We specify a causal system that ...

The hypothesis that children develop an understanding of causal mechanisms was tested across 3 experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 48), preschoolers had to choose as efficacious either a cause that had ...

Serotonin and vitamin D have been proposed to play a role in autism, however, no causal mechanism has been established. Now, researchers show that serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin, three brain ...