Broken promise

The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise

Promises are one of the oldest human-specific psychological mechanisms fostering cooperation and trust. Here, we study the neural underpinnings of promise keeping and promise breaking. Subjects first make a promise decision (promise stage), then they anticipate whether the promise affects the interaction partner's decision (anticipation stage) and are subsequently free to keep or break the prom...

The Road to Reconciliation: Antecedents of Victim Willingness to Reconcile Following a Broken Promise

Politics and a Broken Promise: Why People Are Losing Their Physicians in Post-aca America.

THE LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT THAT MANY AMERicans had about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act [ACA] has not always been echoed by the realities of health care in our emerging delivery system. In particular, the often-repeated pledges that citizens would lose neither their insurance nor their doctor have left many feeling betrayed and abused by broken promises. Although it is true that President...

Broken heart: Broken mind.

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

The health promise of Promise Neighborhoods.

The Promise Neighborhoods initiative from the U.S. Department of Education offers grant funding to develop innovative educational and community support programs in distressed communities. Inspired by the success of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), this initiative encourages similarly pioneering approaches to assist low-income children attain academic and social success. An increasing body of e...