Is there an epistemic advantage to being oppressed?

Being opposite: is there advantage for social competence and friendships in being an opposite-sex twin?

A recent large-scale study of Finnish adolescent twins (Pulkkinen et al., 2003) reported that individuals from opposite-sex twin pairs were more socially adaptive than individuals from same-sex pairs or singletons. This finding raised questions about the social learning effects of being an opposite-sex twin. The current article predicted on the basis of this finding, and evidence from singleton...

Is There an Islamist Political Advantage?

There is a widespread presumption that Islamists have an advantage over their opponents when it comes to generating mass appeal and winning elections. The question remains, however, as to whether these advantages-or, what we refer to collectively as an Islamist political advantage-actually exist. We argue that-to the extent that Islamists have a political advantage-the primary source of this ad...

Is there any advantage to using an arterial transfer function?

(typed double-spaced) in length and may be subject to editing or abridgment. To the Editor: We read with interest the paper by Millasseau et al, 1 which raises the question of whether the application of an arterial transfer function to noninvasively acquired radial artery pressure waveform data is necessary for the estimation of central aortic waveform characteristics. Although the conclusion t...

Is there an in-group advantage in emotion recognition?

H. A. Elfenbein and N. Ambady (2002) examined the evidence for an in-group advantage in emotion recognition, whereby recognition is generally more accurate for perceivers from the same cultural group as emotional expressors. D. Matsumoto's (2002) comment centered on 3 asserted methodological requirements. This response addresses the lack of consensus conceming these "requirements" and demonstra...

Hepatitis A vaccine: is it being used to best advantage?