The following are a sampling of some of this year's most ground-breaking, consequential scholarly findings, reduced to their essence in a Wall Street Journal column:
If patients voluntarily tell a doctor about a bad side effect of a medicine, they are more likely to be switched to a safer one than if they don't (Archives of Internal Medicine, January).
College students tend to drink more alcoholic beverages than they realize (Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, April).
It's much easier to identify someone if he is physically near you than if he is up to 450 feet away (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February).
People who choose their careers carefully, rather than on a whim, experience greater degrees of job satisfaction (Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 26, no. 3).
