Why do people behave aggressively toward romantic partners, and what can put the brakes on this aggression? Provocation robustly predicts aggression in both intimate and nonintimate relationships. Four methodologically diverse studies tested the hypothesis that provocation severity and relationship commitment interact to predict aggression toward one's romantic partner, with the aggression-prom...

The reproducibility of the output of seven different nebulisers was tested. Nebulisers with a minimal increase in output at higher flow rates had less variability in the output. The selection of a nebuliser for bronchial provocation tests depends on the intranebuliser variability. Two nebulisers had highly reproducible outputs.

It is difficult to analyse the relationship between bronchial responsiveness and the severity of asthma since each alone is difficult to assess. Asthma is a heterogeneous condition with many patterns of expression, and clinical methods used to assess its severity have their limitations. Problems also arise in interpreting the results of bronchial provocation tests and methodological differences...

Rumination has been suggested to be an important factor maintaining posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Using an analogue design, this study aimed to experimentally test the hypothesis that trauma-related rumination maintains PTSD symptoms. Fifty-one participants were first asked to give a detailed narrative of a negative life event and were then randomly assigned to a rumination or distracti...

Functional imaging studies of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder showed wide-spread activation of midline cortical areas during symptom provocation, i.e., exposure to trauma-related cues. The present study aimed at investigating neural activation during exposure to trauma-related pictures in patients with acute stress disorder (ASD) shortly after the traumatic event. Nineteen ASD pati...

It has been reported that provocation test with the use of inhalant allergens is the most reliable method for confirming the causal allergens in bronchial asthmat ·5l. However, reports on the studies on the significance of molds in childhood bronchial asthma using the inhalation provocation test are few even in Europe and America. Since 1964, the authors have been conduct­ ing skin tests and in...

In this article, the authors propose and test an interactionist model of personality functioning. The model maintains that many traits function in a threshold-like manner, such that less situational strength is needed to evoke a trait-relevant response in people who are high on the trait than in those who are low on the trait. Because of these different sensitivities, people who are high on a t...

Objective: Numerous provocations cause aggressive behavior. However, different provocation procedures are rarely directly compared. This study examined whether two (i.e., social exclusion and insult) were equally effective in terms of producing behavior, negative affective change threat perception. As psychopathic narcissistic personality traits may moderate provoked aggression, the current als...

METHODS. Sensitivity to grass pollen was confirmed by positive skin-prick test, grass pollen–specific immunoglobulin E, and conjunctival provocation test. Patients were enrolled in a prospective, double-blind trial comparing sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) to placebo. The treatment duration was 32 months. The primary outcome measure was the change in a multiple-symptom/medication score (which m...