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Schachter S & Singer J. Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state. Psychol. Rev. 69:379-99, 1962

“When W. B. Cannon (1929) wrote his devastating and brilliant critique of the James-Lange theory of emotion,1 he would have been wise to follow the example of that great teacher of philosophy, Morris Raphael Cohen. At the end of a course in which he had demonstrated what was wrong with virtually every philosopher who had lived, Cohen was begged by his students to tell them what was right, what ...

S - J . Vick , D . Bovet & J . R . Anderson

The ability to discriminate between pairs of photographs according to the portrayed model’s visual attention status was examined in four olive baboons. Two baboons successfully managed to solve the problem, even when attention was demonstrated by eye direction alone. A third showed an ability to discriminate head direction but not eye direction. In order to investigate further their ability to ...

Abstract (jel Classification Code(s): J 31, J 71)

JEL Classification Code(s): J 31, J 71) "Perceptions of Discrimination, Effort to Obtain Psychological Balance, and Relative Wages: Can We Infer a Happiness Gradient?" There is a substantial literature that finds a linkage between happiness and relative economic well being as measured by earnings or wages. There is also a well documented racial gap in wages. One explanation for this is disparat...

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The controversy about a Cambrian “explosion” of morphological disparity (followed by decimation), cladogenesis and fossilization is of central importance for the history of life. This paper revisits the controversy (with emphasis in onychophorans, which include emblematic organisms such as Hallucigenia), presents new data about the Chengjiang (Cambrian of China) faunal community and compares ii...