a psychiatric survey has been carried out in a solitary small village located in the fringes of central desert of iran. out of 106 individuals of 15 years old and over, selected randomly, 57 (53.8%) were found to be suffering from psychiatryic disturbances 21 (41.2%) of them were males and 36 (65.5%) were females. depressive illnesses were found to be the most frequntfy encontered disorder. the...

The use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of psychological concepts is investigated; further, the role of human associative memory and its explo...

People recall taboo words better than neutral words in many experimental contexts. The present rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) experiments demonstrated this taboo-superiority effect for immediate recall of mixed lists containing taboo and neutral words matched for familiarity, length, and category coherence. Under binding theory (MacKay et al., 2004), taboo superiority reflects an inter...