The present research tested the assumption that implicit preferences fit the eagerness of a promotion focus, but not the need for safe judgments and decisions of a prevention focus. In two studies, we assessed individual differences in implicit preferences for consumer goods and investigated their influence on self-regulatory behavior. In line with expectations, implicit preferences predicted c...

ion of logical arguments come into play on some occasions and not others. The authors appraise this argument by way of a systematic comparison of personal storytelling and reason-giving in public deliberation, the first such empirical study. Drawing upon an analysis of 1,415 claims made by 263 people in 12 discussion groups, the authors show that ordinary conventions of storytelling helped deli...

The introduction of practice theory into sociolinguistics is an important recent development in the field. The community of practice provides a useful alternative to the speech-community model, which has limitations for language and gender researchers in particular. As an ethnographic, activitybased approach, the community of practice is of special value to researchers in language and gender be...

In the last few years, researchers have begun to study novel human communication systems in the laboratory (Experimental Semiotics, ES). The first goal of this article is to provide a primer to ES, which we will do by reviewing the experimental paradigms developed by experimental semioticians, as well as the main research themes that have emerged in the discipline. A second goal is to illustrat...

We contend that as Internet penetration increases, students of inequality of access to the new information technologies should shift their attention from the “digital divide” --inequality between “haves” and “have-nots” differentiated by dichotomous measures of access to or use of the new technologies --to digital inequality, by which we refer not just to differences in access, but also to ineq...

Dogon languages lexicalize action verbs with obligatory reference to manner and/or process. This contrasts with English and “Standard Average European,” which (in neutral contexts) profile result and/or function. Many common English verbs like carry and eat correspond to sets of Dogon verbs with senses like ‘carry on back’ and ‘munch’. The pattern cuts across many semantic domains and constitut...

html. file:///Users/dad/Documents/Green/AIDS/ARAS/aras.ab.ca ƒ/test/azt-integrated.html (2 of 45)3/27/2006 6:16:14 PM AZT: Unsafe at Any Dose? “1 patient [out of a grand total of 10 in this clinical trial] suffered from severe anemia resulting from ZDV [AZT] therapy” Lafeuillade A et al. Pilot study of a combination of highly active antiretroviral therapy and cytokines to induce HIV-1 remission...

Social Sciences are increasingly interested in understanding the characteristics of Computer Mediated Communication and its effects on people, groups and organisations. The first effect of this influence is the revolution in the metaphors used to describe communication. After describing these changes, the paper outlines a framework for the study of computer-mediated communication and considers ...

Although observers of human behavior have long been aware that people regularly struggle with internal conflict when deciding whether to behave responsibly or indulge in impulsivity, psychologists and economists did not begin to empirically investigate this type of want/ should conflict until recently. In this article, we review and synthesize the latest research on want/should conflict, focusi...