We respond more quickly to our own face than to other faces, but there is debate over whether this is connected to attention-grabbing properties of the self-face. In two experiments, we investigate whether the self-face selectively captures attention, and the attentional conditions under which this might occur. In both experiments, we examined whether different types of face (self, friend, stra...

Background
 Members of the same social group tent to have body height. Migrants tend adjust in height their host communities.
 Objectives
 Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) factors influence growth. We hypothesized that Vietnamese young adult migrants Germany (1) are taller than parents, (2) as tall German peers, and (3) predicted by expectation at age 13 years.
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Two studies examined autonomy support within close friendships. The first showed that receiving autonomy support from a friend predicted the recipient's need satisfaction within the relationship and relationship quality as indexed by emotional reliance, security of attachment, dyadic adjustment, and inclusion of friend in self and that there was significant mutuality of receiving autonomy suppo...

A friendship system is introduced for modular static verification of object invariants. It extends a previous methodology, based on ownership hierarchy encoded in auxiliary state, to allow for state dependence across ownership boundaries. Friendship describes a formal protocol for a granting class to grant a friend class permission to express its invariant over fields in the granting class. The...

To secure the interest of the personal self (vs. social others) is considered a fundamental human motive, but the nature of the motivation to secure the self-interest is not well understood. To address this issue, we assessed electrocortical responses of European Americans and Asians as they performed a flanker task while instructed to earn as many reward points as possible either for the self ...

OBJECTIVES We assessed sexual orientation disparities in exposure to violence and other potentially traumatic events and onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a representative US sample. METHODS We used data from 34 653 noninstitutionalized adult US residents from the 2004 to 2005 wave of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. RESULTS Lesbians and ga...

female love, it being thought that women were destined to love each other anyway and passively lie in each other's arms, as pictured in dozens of illustrated Victorian calendars showing fair maidens intertwined in the meadow or caressing by the brook under a tree. White includes only a few female voices before the 1870s: Charlotte Bronte in a letter of 1837 to Ellen Nussey, and Adah Isaacs Menc...

Raising rape awareness by sharing their stories was the goal oi' two Notre Dame sexual assault survivors, during Wednesday’s Surv ivor Panel Discussion arranged by Campus Alliance for Rape Elimination (CARE). Lindsay, a junior, and Kori, a senior, both presented the stories of their rapes and the effects on their lives. Emphasizing not only the horror of the incident itself, but also how they d...

We investigated how the reach-to-grasp movement is influenced by the presence of another person (friend or non-friend), who was either invisible (behind) or located in different positions with respect to an object and to the agent, and by the perspective conveyed by linguistic pronouns ("I", "You"). The interaction between social relationship and relative position influenced the latency of both...