The Anxious and Ambivalent Partisan

When Accuracy Hurts: Reactions of Anxious-Ambivalent Dating Partners to a Relationship-Threatening Situation

Why are anxious-ambivalent individuals especially likely to have turbulent and unstable relationships'.' To help answer this question, the authors use 3 theoretical perspectives to examine how heightened empathic accuracy in a relationship-threatening situation is associated with personal and relational distress. Dating couples inferred their partners' thoughts and feelings from a videotaped in...

Anxious mothers... anxious babies?

Many mothers of infants experience days of worry and weeks of work—an experience made so much harder by the presence of a crying infant. Up to 20% of mothers in developed countries report excessive crying in their infants. Although often thought of as a benign, self-limiting condition, infant crying—in particular, crying that lasts more than 3 h per day, for more than 3 days per week and for mo...

Ambivalent jew

Ambivalent antihistamines.

-In mice with a transplantable mammary carcinoma, treatment with the prostaglandin-synthesis inhibitors flurbiprofen or indomethacin produced various beneficial effects. Survival time after excision of the transplanted tumour was increased, particularly when the drugs were given with the chemotherapeutic agents methrotrexate and melphalan, and there were more disease-free survivors. The combine...

Ambivalent Dopamine

Many of animal behaviors can be considered as the end product of the motivation to maximize benefits and minimize costs to the animal. Through intensive investigation based on psychopharmacological manipulations , dopamine in the mammalian nucleus accumbens (NAcc) has been implicated to play a key role in multiple aspects of moti-vational control of behaviors. However, the exact mechanism by wh...