Book Review – Buchbesprechung – Livre nouveau P. V. Tobias: The Cranium and Maxillary Dentition of Australopithecus (Zinjan-thropus) boisei. In: L. S. B. Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, 1967. XVI + 264 pages. Price: $ 17.50. This volume comprises the detailed anatomical description, in classical style, of the first australopithecine skull discovered in the Olduvai Gor...

We propose that middle childhood female ambivalent attachment, given the adaptive problem of uncertainty of future investment, is designed to evoke immediate investment from current caregivers, rather than new investment sources. We suggest greater specificity of strategic attachment solutions to adaptive problems that differ by sex, time, and relationship type. The target article represents a ...

ARCHIEOLOGICA MEDICA. XXIX.-ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, THE MYSTIC PHYSICIAN. DR. LALANDE1 has recently done good service by drawing attention to the history of ArnLId of Villaliova, one of the few great medical names which emerge from the mass of ignorance and credulity marking the thirteenth century in Europe. Born in Provence, probably at Villeneuve-Loubet, in the arrondissement of Grasse, at some ...

Musing on the rows of discarded crutches on display at Lourdes, the journalist H.L. Mencken observed that no wooden legs were in evidence. Why, one might ask, has this paradox not presented itself to the faithful? Mencken also remarked that faith could be defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. The efficacy of prayer is not, as it happens, one of the “weird beliefs” ...

O 7 January 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015–2020 (1). The preliminary report (released in February 2015) had generated considerable media attention by reversing decades of dogma with the statement that “cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” Incredibly, in the final 20...

WHEN RELEASED TO EXTRACELLULAR SPACES, ATP and other nucleotides can participate in multiple types of intercellular communication (4). This can involve classical mechanisms of intercellular signaling (similar to those used in neurotransmission and many types of endocrine regulation) that involve exocytotic release of ATP that is copackaged with biogenic amines (or other neurotransmitters) withi...

In this article the construct of generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement is used as a model to present a brief on the importance of broad theory and training in theory construction and evaluation in psychology. Specifically, the extraordinary heuristic value of this construct is attributed to four characteristics: the nature of the definition, the careful ...

2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing name Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from same source as villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, differ oppon...

The assumption that we largely lack reasons for accepting testimony has dominated its epistemology. Given the further assumption that whatever reasons we do have are insufficient to justify our testimonial beliefs, many conclude that any account of testimonial knowledge must allow credulity to be justified. In this paper I argue that both of these assumptions are false. Our responses to testimo...

Factors hypothesized to affect beliefs in fantastical beings were examined by introducing children to a novel fantastical entity, the Candy Witch. Results revealed that among older preschoolers, children who were visited by the Candy Witch exhibited stronger beliefs in the Candy Witch than did those who were not. Among children who were visited, older children had stronger beliefs than did youn...