Why are Those Options Smiling?

Why Laughing is Better than SMILing

Dialectically sharing knowledge everywhere, every time and, above all, very fast – as it is nowadays possible-has revealed the existence and importance of a common, distributed intelligence growing with the contribution of many individuals (a community). The iterating refinement of any information resource by a wider and wider community of sharers leads to undoubted advantages on the final qual...

Smiling Faces are Better for Face Recognition

Choosing versus rejecting: why some options are both better and worse than others.

A previously unobserved pattern of choice behavior is predicted and corroborated. In line with the principle of compatibility, according to which the weighting of inputs is enhanced by their compatibility with output, the positive and negative dimensions of options (their pros and cons) are expected to loom larger when one is choosing and when one is rejecting, respectively. Subjects are presen...

Why calpain inhibitors are interesting leading compounds to search for new therapeutic options to treat leishmaniasis?

Leishmaniasis is a neglected disease, which needs improvements in drug development, mainly due to the toxicity, parasite resistance and low compliance of patients to treatment. Therefore, the development of new chemotherapeutic compounds is an urgent need. This opinion article will briefly highlight the feasible use of calpain inhibitors as leading compounds to search for new therapeutic option...

Not always the best medicine: Why frequent smiling can reduce wellbeing

• The meaning people attach to the act of smiling affects their subjective wellbeing. • People believe that smiling either reflects happiness or is an attempt to become happy. • Smile frequency can increase or reduce wellbeing, based on their belief. • Frequent smiling can backfire and make a person less happy. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Conventional wisdom (and existing research) su...