Why do people give to strangers? We propose that people trust and give more to those whose emotional expressions match how they ideally want to feel ("ideal affect match"). European Americans and Koreans played multiple trials of the Dictator Game with recipients who varied in emotional expression (excited, calm), race (White, Asian) and sex (male, female). Consistent with their culture's value...

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In 2007, a leading article was published by Stevan Hobfoll and a team of international experts. The authors synthesized available scientific evidence and distinguished five essential principles of psychosocial care to people confronted with disaster, tragedy, and loss. Care givers should promote: (1) a sense of safety, (2) calming, (3) self- and community efficacy, (4) social connectedness, and...

BACKGROUND Advanced cancer brings substantial physical and psychosocial challenges that may contribute to emotional distress and diminish well-being. In this study, we present preliminary data concerning the effectiveness of a new brief individual psychotherapy, Managing Cancer And Living Meaningfully (CALM), designed to help individuals cope with this circumstance. AIM To test the feasibilit...

In recent times, considerable emphasis has been given to two apparently disjoint research topics: data-parallel and eventually consistent, distributed systems. In this paper we propose a study on an eventually consistent, dataparallel computational model, the keystone of which is provided by the recent finding that a class of programs exists that can be computed in an eventually consistent, coo...

But what about the second one, calm technology? It is about interaction design, poetry, perception, quality, and it is almost completely unrealized. It is about much more subtle properties than quantities, miniaturization and wireless networking. Google returns less than 50 thousands results on the subject. The world forgot the most precious heritage of Weiser. This text is about calm technolog...

‘Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it? Mark, how when sailors in a dead calm bathe in the open sea—mark how closely they hug their ship and only coast along her sid...

This paper studies stability for parametric mathematical programs with geometric constraints. We show that, under the no nonzero abnormal multiplier constraint qualification and the second-order growth condition or second-order sufficient condition, the locally optimal solution mapping and stationary point mapping are nonempty-valued and continuous with respect to the perturbation parameter and...