Women are presumed to compete intrasexually primarily on the basis of physical attractiveness. As such, in efforts to enhance their appearance, women may strive to achieve unrealistic cultural ideals of attractiveness promulgated in the media with potentially negative implications (e.g., body dysmorphic disorder, eating disorders, and cosmetic surgery). The present study considered the implicat...

The observation of the psychological makeup of leaders has taken place within organizations and groups of all kinds for several decades. What was considered a psychologically adapted leader at the turn of the twentieth century is now considered rigid, patriarchal, and unnecessarily oppressive. Different models of psychological attributes and characteristics have evolved just as the practice of ...

The success of a connectionist model of cognitive development on the balance scale task is due to manipulations which impede convergence of the backpropagation learning algorithm. The model was trained at different levels of a biased training environment with exposure to a varied number of training instances. The effects of weight updating method and modifying the network topology were also exa...