Taboo Journal Guidelines

Clinical Guidelines Danish Medical Journal

These guidelines for the treatment of diverticular disease are elaborated by a working group under the auspices of the Danish Surgical Society in September 2010 – May 2011. This work was inspired by the fact that in several other countries attempts has been made to standardize the treatment of diverticular disease, as the area has been characterized by low evidence and surgeons personal prefere...

Clinical Guidelines Danish Medical Journal

INTRODUCTION Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic, immune-mediated enteropathy of the small intestine. In genetically predisposed individuals, it is triggered by gluten in food products [1,2]. Left untreated, CD may cause malabsorption, reduced quality of life, iron deficiency, and osteoporosis, and there is an increased risk of lymphoma. The disease prevalence is 0.5-1.0%, but CD remains under-dia...

Dutch taboo norms

This article provides norms for general taboo, personal taboo, insult, valence, and arousal for 672 Dutch words, including 202 taboo words. Norms were collected using a 7-point Likert scale and based on ratings by psychology students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The sample consisted of 87 psychology students (58 females, 29 males). We obtained high reliability based...

The last taboo?

Processing Neutral , Emotion and Taboo

Bilinguals have reported that they have a stronger emotional experience in their native language (L1) than in their second language (L2). Behavioral studies are inconclusive about this question. However, studies that used skin conductance levels as a dependent variable are clearer about this effect: participants elicit a stronger skin conductance response on emotional and taboo words in L1 comp...