From him and her

Comprehending the pronouns her, him, and his: Implications for theories of referential processing

The research investigated how comprehenders use structural information during co-reference resolution of the pronouns her, him, and his. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing the pronoun her in object position, functioning as SPEC or NP and preceded by one of three types of NPs in subject position (e.g., ‘‘Mary/Mark/They saw her friend/yesterday. . .’’). In Experiment 2, addit...

Her odours make him deaf: crossmodal modulation of olfaction and hearing in a male moth.

All animals have to cope with sensory conflicts arising from simultaneous input of incongruent data to different sensory modalities. Nocturnal activity in moths includes mate-finding behaviour by odour detection and bat predator avoidance by acoustic detection. We studied male moths that were simultaneously exposed to female sex pheromones indicating the presence of a potential mate, and artifi...

Relationship quality with pre-school children: How domestic work matters to her, him, and them

Persuade him by email, but see her in person: Online persuasion revisited

This study replicated and expanded on earlier research on gender differences in the evaluation of computer-mediated persuasive messages. Participants discussed a counter-attitudinal topic with a same-gender confederate. Those participants made to feel a sense of shared identity (high oneness) with the communicator were the most favorable toward the proposal whereas those participants made to fe...

Interpretive Reading of the Verse "She verily desired him and he would have desired her" in the Commentaries of Al-Manar, Al-Mizan and Tasnim

The connection of the content of the verse "She verily desired him, and he would have desired her if it had not been that he saw the argument of his Lord" to the infallibility of the Prophet Yusuf (as) has increased the attention of the commentators of the two sects to its content. The present article, which is written in a descriptive-analytical manner, seeks to identify the approach of the co...