Changing faces: nurses as emotional jugglers

Refugees in Australia: Changing faces, changing needs.

he profile of refugees being resettled in Australia depends on global geopolitical conflicts, representations from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the Australian Government, and Australia' s response. Recent years have seen an enormous shift within Australia's annual refugee intake, with 70% originating from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 1 The Australian Government requi...

Emotional Faces and Cognition

The changing faces of cholangitis

A variety of diseases are included under the umbrella term 'cholangitis', including hepatobiliary diseases with an autoimmune pathogenesis (such as primary sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and IgG4-associated sclerosing cholangitis) and disease processes associated with intraductal stones and infectious etiologies (such as ascending bacterial cholangitis, recurrent pyogenic ...

Emotional Faces in Peripheral Crowding

Crowding effect refers to the deficit in identifying viewed targets, such as letters, numerals, line segments, or grating patches, when other shapes are nearby. This effect is reduced when distractors have a different color, contrast, or binocular disparity than that of the target. With feature singleton targets, the crowding effect decreases dramatically with an increasing number of distractor...

Remembering faces with emotional expressions

It is known that happy faces create more robust identity recognition memory than faces with some other expressions. However, this advantage was not verified against all basic expressions. Moreover, no research has assessed whether similar differences also exist among other expressions. To tackle these questions, we compared the effects of six basic emotional expressions on recognition memory us...