Can cultural values eliminate ostracism distress?

Can we eliminate trachoma?

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Although it disappeared long ago from Western Europe and the United States, trachoma is still as endemic as ever in parts of Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and South East Asia. Ocular strains of Chlamydia trachomatis cause repeated episodes of conjunctivitis in children. In teenagers and adults, the disease progresses throug...

Need threat can motivate performance after ostracism.

Ostracism threatens fundamental needs of belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence, which should motivate participants to respond to this threat. However, research has yet to examine the role of need threat in producing motivation after ostracism. In the current work, participants completed a "cognitive ability" (antisaccade) task following Cyberball-induced ostracism or inclusi...

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Disorder can eliminate oscillator death

We use an array of diffusively coupled limit-cycle oscillators with a regular monotonic trend of natural frequencies to demonstrate that the disorder introduced in the form of random deviations from a linear trend of frequencies can weaken considerably desynchronization-induced oscillator death and, as a result, increase oscillation intensity substantially. There exist definite optimal levels o...

Cultural Values and Cosmopolitanism

This article investigates whether the September 11 attack had an impact on cultural values and the level of cosmopolitanism of US university students. Extending a model proposed by Esses, Dovidio & Hodson (2002), we hypothesize a positive effect on the cultural dimensions of collectivism and hierarchy/power distance and a negative effect on cosmopolitanism. Our results – drawn from two separate...