The objective of these studies was to determine the strength and direction of the relationship between prayer and gratitude. In Study 1 (n 674), the authors replicated the cross-sectional association between prayer frequency and gratitude that has been demonstrated in previous research. In Study 2 (n 780), prayer frequency predicted gratitude 6 weeks later even when controlling for initial grat...

We use information contained in yield spreads to recover investors’ ex ante required rates of return on corporate securities, and then use these ex ante returns to study the pricing of risky assets. Differently from the standard approach, our asset pricing tests do not rely on the use of ex post average equity returns as proxies for expected equity returns. We Þnd that: (i) the market beta play...

BACKGROUND In low- and middle-income countries, many women continue working later into pregnancy. In our recent study on some areas in rural China, most women stopped working already during the first trimester (≤3 months) of pregnancy. In this paper we aimed to explore whether stopping work during early pregnancy has changed over an 8 year period (between 2001-03 and 2009); we also studied whet...

Using longitudinal data on the Boston Naming Test ( Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983) collected over 20 years from healthy individuals aged 30 to 94, we examined change in lexical retrieval with age, gender, education, and their interactions. We compared results between random-effects longitudinal and traditional cross-sectional models. Random-effects modeling revealed significant linear an...

This paper considers how the rise of remarriage and premarital cohabitation affect the trends and patterns of educational homogamy in Britain. Using repeated cross-sectional data taken from the General Household Surveys, which cover a thirty years period, I show that the strength of educational homogamy has declined for remarriages and for marriages that began as cohabiting unions. The decline ...

Asubstantial body of research in management and related public policy fields concludes that recent decades saw greater dynamic competition throughout technology-intensive (TI) industries, with widespread steady increase in TI industry and business performance instability as key implications. We set this conclusion within a broader framework of purportedly increasing dynamic competition among TI...

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BACKGROUND Few studies document differences in patient satisfaction with physicians in the elderly (> or = 65 years) and compare it to non-elderly (<65 years) patients. METHODS A cross-sectional survey study on a convenience sample of 20,901 patients rated their recent visit to a physician through a web-based survey. Survey included validated questions based on aspects of physician care pract...