Speech-to-text (STT) technology enables pupils to write using their voice. This qualitative study explores six teachers’ experiences with introducing STT in a whole-class environment at Norwegian lower secondary school. The aim was explore the benefits and challenges of as an inclusive approach for writing instruction education. teachers stated that most found useful when beginning longer assig...

In the introduction to the special issue "The Neural Underpinnings of Vicarious Experience" the editors state that one "may feel embarrassed when witnessing another making a social faux pas". In our commentary we address this statement and ask whether this example introduces a vicarious or an empathic form of embarrassment. We elaborate commonalities and differences between these two forms of e...

Kudos to you for asking! It can be really tough to ask about your fears and find ways to overcome them. Assuming that you're talking about medically related injections, rather than "shots" of alcohol, here's some sugar that might help the medicine go down. Shots can refer to any number of injections, be it vaccines, insulin injections, various medications, injectable birth control, or fertility...

S.U., a 71-year-old man who lives alone, presented to the emergency department complaining of chest pain. He received a complete cardiac workup, and his chest pain was attributed to heartburn and indigestion. When the nurse practitioner examined him, she discovered a large ulcerated left breast mass (see Figure 1) with no palpable axillary lymphadenopathy. S.U. admitted that he’d known about th...

In the social sciences, feelings are referred to as “affect,” and there are many confusions between the terms “emotions,” “feelings,” and “affect.” One reason for this is that humans experience a wide range of feelings – such as being tired, bored, sleepy, excited, hungry, angry, afraid, sad, ashamed, proud, embarrassed, happy, or jealous, and much of it is called “emotion.” Indeed, feelings ar...

From the perspective of terror management theory, the human body is problematic because it serves as a perpetual reminder of the inevitability of death. Human beings confront this problem through the development of cultural worldviews that imbue reality—and the body as part of that reality—with abstract symbolic meaning. This fanciful flight from death is in turn the psychological impetus for d...

After hearing the punch line of the joke, the teenager falls to the floor, almost as if actually punched. She remains there, completely unable to move. She hears her parents reassure her friends that they need not worry about her because she will be all right in a few minutes. She is embarrassed and frustrated as the episode continues, and her friends begin to leave. They bid her goodbye, but s...

Kudos to you for asking! It can be really tough to ask about your fears and find ways to overcome them. Assuming that you're talking about medically related injections, rather than "shots" of alcohol, here's some sugar that might help the medicine go down. Shots can refer to any number of injections, be it vaccines, insulin injections, various medications, injectable birth control, or fertility...

Many readers will recall a provocative Oliphant cartoon, which was circulated nationally and seen on the editorial pages of our newspapers during the 1976 Patricia Hearst trial. It caricatures the essence of our plight. Consider again its portrayal of a white-bearded defense psychiatrist gliding into the courtroom balanced precariously on roller skates; with a propellered beanie on his head, a ...

Selfinsertion of foreign bodies into the urethra and bladder, usually for sexual gratification and auto-eroticism especially during male masturbation, is an unusual but important condition which urologists will encounter. Patients thereafter usually feel embarrassed and tend to avoid seeking immediate medical help. The urological consequences of this type of behaviour can be significant and the...