Clear and long-established evidence that ⬆️nicotine in cigarettes leads to ⬆️dependence (physiological and subjective measures). Growing body of evidence suggests e-cigs are no different, which is reckless to ignore. Not an enemy of nicotine, but it's also not productive to discuss without nuance.

Good question. Need to balance the harms of higher nicotine (greater dependence) vs. lower nicotine (more exposure to the bad stuff). Unclear where that balance should be, at present. But it's not a question of if they're harmful, but how much less harmful, which appears to depend on use patterns.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jeab.70044
Take-home: perceived uncertainty about future rewards is related to higher delay discounting. This appears baked into the task even when specifying that rewards are 100% certain.

I'll pass it along thx

Yes, generally. And especially if you're referring to the ceiling effect in violin plots. Starting to think a table is a better place for those data.

My colleagues and I showed that if you instruct participants to respond systematically, reliability is fine. So: anxious participants are not responding systematically.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-...

Plenty of variability within cultures, too. So unless someone on the committee knows the letter writer and can help interpret the presence or absence of hyperbole, it's like reading tea leaves. Quantitative ratings would be more informative in most cases.

... after finding it by mistake when searching for an unrelated email thread