We assessed the forgetting of friends and its effects on measuring personal and social network characteristics and properties. All 217 residents of a university residence hall first recalled as many of their friends in the hall as they could. Then, on a complete list of hall residents, residents indicated other friends they forgot to recall. On average, residents forgot 20% of their friends. Re...

This section concerns organizations in which decisions are made by a single round or by successive rounds of majority voting. In a case that is of particular interest with respect to organizations as well as to political competition, one member is a “leader,” who has the exclusive right to propose alternatives to the status quo. It turns out that, in the long run, this right can make the leader...

The present information paper illustrates the close link between disaster and disability and the importance of incorporating disability perspectives in all phases of disaster risk reduction. The paper outlines the challenges persons with disabilities face in the wake of disasters and describes the benefits to all members of society using a disability-inclusive disaster risk reduction approach. ...

The ‘right to be forgotten’ (RTBF) is an emerging concept that refers to an individual’s ability to have data collected about themselves permanently deleted or “destroyed”—the final stage of the information life cycle. However, we do not yet understand where RTBF fits into existing theory and models of privacy concerns. This is due, at least in part, to the lack of validated instruments to asse...

uniform, utilizes any tactic, and swears its allegiance not to a government, but an ideology. However, governmental entity since the city-state of Athens fought Melos over two thousand years ago. This enigma is asymmetrical warfare. The only way to truly study asymmetrical warfare is to take into account its long history. Thus, measure the relationship between the duration of asymmetrical war a...

almost 7,500 young people (between the ages of JO and 20) were admitted to mental illness hospitals 'n 1966?the last year for which figures are available. On the face of it the figure may not seem very large when compared with the total population of this age group (6,976,400) but it is a disturbing lumber simply because there are nothing like enough suitable facilities available for the treatm...

The forgotten dream proved central to the early development of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic technique in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). However, little attention has been paid to the shifting uses of forgotten dreams within psychotherapeutic practice over the course of the twentieth century. This paper argues that post-war psychotherapists in London, both Jungian and Freudian, developed...

Experiences are remembered or forgotten, but the neural determinants for the mnemonic fate of experience are unknown. Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify specific brain activations that differentiated between visual experiences that were later remembered well, remembered less well, or forgotten. During scanning of medial temporal lobe and frontal lobe region...

Our case study confirms two previous studies demonstrating that a ‘lost’ language can be recovered by hypnosis. These results point to the existence of another type of attrition. Here a distinction is made between this type of attrition of a ‘hidden language’ (HL), that is, one that has not been forgotten but rather has become inaccessible to the speaker, and the traditionally studied attrition...