Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them

Face Your Fears: Cleaning Gobies Inspect Predators despite Being Stressed by Them

social stressors typically elicit two distinct behavioural responses in vertebrates: an active response (i.e., "fight or flight") or behavioural inhibition (i.e., freezing). Here, we report an interesting exception to this dichotomy in a Caribbean cleaner fish, which interacts with a wide variety of reef fish clients, including predatory species. Cleaning gobies appraise predatory clients as po...

Nurse supply grows despite shortage fears.

Saved by the blush: being trusted despite defecting.

This study examined whether blushing after a sociomoral transgression remediates trustworthiness in an interdependent context. Participants (N = 196) played a computerized prisoner's dilemma game with a virtual opponent who defected in the second round of the game. After the defection, a photograph of the opponent was shown, displaying a blushing or a nonblushing face. In a subsequent Trust Tas...

Cleaning Your Wrong Google Scholar Entries

Entity categorization – the process of grouping entities into categories for some specific purpose – is an important problem with a great many applications, such as Google Scholar and Amazon products. Unfortunately, many real-world categories contain mis-categorized entities, such as publications in one’s Google Scholar page that are published by the others. We have proposed a general framework...

Shedding your fears: bedside etiquette for dying patients.

Rehabilitation specialists often are uncomfortable with dying clients and patients. This article explores the reasons why and offers suggestions to reduce the discomfort, improve service, and grow as a professional and human being.