Definitions and Usage, or a Rose by Any Other Name Smells as Sweet

A Pathological Rose by Any Other Name

As lecturers in pathology it is our task to impart a smattering of pathological knowledge to the modern Bristol medical student. In doing so we are forced to utilise the age old descriptive terms of surgical pathology passed down to us from time when Virchow was an SHO! Far from making our task easy, we are often asked to explain in terms more appropriate to the twentieth century what these arc...

A rose by any other name?

• We examine the consequences of ethnic labels that represent different SES subtypes. • The ethnic label Black signals lower social class and status than African-American. • Whites rated a Black employee to be lower status than an African-American employee. • Articles that used Black (vs. African-American) had a more negative emotional tone. • Whites perceived a Black suspect more negatively th...

Alchemy A Rose by Any Other Name

MIT Student Professor David Jones & Professor David Kaiser STS.003 The Rise of Modern Science Paper 1 Alchemy & Chemistry; A Rose by Any Other Name. Most people today consider alchemy to be some sort of archaic black art; sorcerers working in secret chambers to transmute lead into gold. Chemistry, on the other hand, is regarded as one of the most important branches of experimental science. Is t...

Systemic sclerosis classification: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?

A rose by any other name: would it smell as sweet?

We examined whether presenting an odor with a positive, neutral, or negative name would influence how people perceive it. In experiment 1, 40 participants rated 15 odors for their pleasantness, intensity, and arousal. In experiment 2, 30 participants passively smelled 10 odors while their skin conductance (SC), heart rate (HR), and sniffing were recorded. We found significant overall effects of...