The current study examines how subjective pain reporting is influenced by the concordant and discordant nature of the ethnic identities of pain expressers (participants) and pain assessors (experimenters). Three discomfort conditions that varied in stimuli intensity (Study 1: mild pain; Study 2: severe pain), and distraction components (Study 3) were used to assess whether pain intensity and to...

A common finding of the literature on dishonesty is that groups are more dishonest than individuals. We revisit this by replacing experimenter, implicitly hurt subjects’ dishonesty, with an explicit third-party: a local charity. With charity we do not find to be Instead, can even help moderate extent dishonesty.

How are people facing a virtual agent affected by the vividness and graphical fidelity of the agent and its environment? A choice blindness (CB) experiment – measuring detection rate of hidden manipulations – was conducted presenting a high versus low immersion virtual environment. The hypothesis was that the lower quality virtual environment (low immersion) would increase the detection rate fo...

The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com Abstract. The information processing capabilities of many proteins are currently unexplored. The complexities and high dimensional parameter spaces make their investigation impractical. Difficulties arise as limited resources prevent intensive experimentation to identify repeatable behaviours. To assist in this exploration, computati...

Background: Benveniste's biology experiments suggested the existence of molecular-like effects without molecules ("memory of water"). In this article, it is proposed that these disputed experiments could have been the consequence of a previously unnoticed and non-conventional experimenter effect. Methods: A probabilistic modelling is built in order to describe an elementary laboratory experimen...

19 male Es employing a Taffel-type task conducted a verbal conditioning experiment with 60 female Ss. I the Es were led to expect their Ss to show verbal conditioning, and 4 were led to expect no verbal conditioning. 4 the Es in each of these groups were led to feel that it would be desirable if their Ss showed conditioning, and J were led to feel that it would be undesirable. Those Es who (a) ...

Linrad is designed to fit any hardware that can supply a digital data stream to a PC computer. Of course, station performance improves with two channels having a large bandwidth, but running Linrad with only one channel at a bandwidth of a few kilohertz can produce dramatic performance improvements for a conventional amateur receiver. Linrad is still at an early stage of development and the onl...

Epistemological, the intrinsic/extrinsic concept, or, by another naming [1, 2], the endophysics/exophysics concept, is related to the question of how a mathematical or a logical or an algorithmic universe is perceived from within/from the outside. The physical universe, by definition, can be perceived from within only. Extrinsic or exophysical perception can be conceived as a hierarchical proce...