Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?

What makes people click?

Mysterious culture: Some online social networks evolve a distinct culture and iconography, like ancient Egypt, only more rapidly. (Photo: Guillaume Lelarge/Wikimedia Commons.) A mysterious new culture has been born. “We are like ancient Egyptians. We communicate with pictures, we worship cats, and nobody understands us.” This paraphrases a post that was reblogged many thousands of times on the ...

Children and research participation: who makes what decisions.

The three federal research funding agencies in Canada— the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council—recently created the Panel on Research Ethics (announced November 9, 2001). The mandate of this inter-agency panel is, in part, to ensure that the Tri-Council Policy Statement (TCPS) on ...

Religious Beliefs, Religious Participation and Cooperation

The paper analyzes the relation between religious beliefs, religious participation and social cooperation. In particular, we focus on religions that instill beliefs about the connection between rewards and punishments and social behaviour. We show how religious organizations arise endogenously, analyze their e¤ect on social interactions in society and identify a "spiritual" as well as a "materi...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Mood migration: How enfacing a smile makes you happier.

People tend to perceive the face of another person more as their own if own and other face are stroked in synchrony-the enfacement illusion. We conceptually replicated the enfacement illusion in a virtual reality environment, in which participants could control the movements of a virtual face by moving and touching their own face. We then used this virtual enfacement illusion to study whether e...