this paper reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate the cultural and social complexities governing the compliment responses among the persian native speakers. 200 persian respondents took a 24-item discourse completion task (dct) while 15 native field workers were also set responsible for collecting the examples of complimenting exchanges they either observed or participated i...

BACKGROUND Although many people know that an active lifestyle contributes to health they fail to translate their intentions into action. This has been explained by deficits in self-management and resources, such as enabling social support, planning, and self-regulation in the face of barriers. The present study examines the role of perceived social support, planning, and self-regulation in faci...

This research examined how the presentation of items related to goals and temptations influences the dynamic of self-regulation, as reflected in evaluation and choice. The authors found that when items, such as healthy and unhealthy foods or academic and leisure activities, are presented together in a unified choice set (e.g., in 1 image) and seem to complement each other, people express a posi...

0278-0079/04/$20.00©2004IEEE | 55 © P H O TO D IS C G R E E N T he United States Congress is currently refining the details of a Nanotechnology Research and Development Act that allocates $2.4 billion in funding over three years for basic investigations of nanotechnology by nonDefense Department federal agencies [1]. This investment is in addition to the $2 billion poured into nanotechnology by...

social anarchism sometimes referred to as socialist anarchism is generally considered tobe the branch of anarchism which sees individual freedom as being dependent upon mutual aid. socialanarchist consideration generally emphasizes community and social equality. society in the modernperiod is in a critical situation of not only economy and social system, but also in the remarkableaspects of the...