Kumho Tire Co. v. Patrick Carmichael

a case resulting in a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that extended the gatekeeper role of judges to cover both scientific expert testimony, as established in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. (see Daubert test), and nonscientific expert testimony.

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Psychology term of the day

May 8th 2024

health–belief model

a model that identifies the relationships of the following issues to the likelihood of taking preventive health action: (a) individual perceptions about susceptibility to and seriousness of a disease, (b) sociodemographic variables, (c) environmental cues, and (d) perceptions of the benefits and costs. See also exercise–behavior model.