IN A RECENT ISSUE of the American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, work by Vincent Gattone (4) examines a potential confounding variable in the treatment of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Dr. Gattone was the first to describe a role for vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist as a way to decrease cyst growth in the setting of PKD. His original work was performed in the pc...

This study utilized an originally developed biographical inventory, the Behavioral Indicators of Future Performance (BIFP), to establish valid non-cognitive variables predictive of initial college success. The BIFP was administered in 2005 to college freshmen entering their first semester and included a final sample of 393 men and 295 women. Each of 308 variables on the BIFP was assessed for it...

Learned Helplessness is an important concept to understand because it provides a foundation in theory developments. This concept is considered a personality trait of one who feels hopeless; their responses are unimportant and lose control of external environment. Understanding the definition will help health professionals in nursing and psychology. In both disciplines, understanding learned hel...

vacious plant distributed across all of Korea and also cultivated in China. The root of Cynanchum paniculatum is used as a Chinese traditional medicine. Recently, the plants of genus Cynanchum of Asclepiadaceae, e.g. Cynanchum atratum, Cynanchum auriculatum and Cynanchum paniculatum, were studied for their anticancer and analgesic effects. In addition, Cynanchum paniculatum has been traditional...

Recent studies in the empirical finance literature have reported evidence of two types of asymmetries in the joint distribution of stock returns. The first is skewness in the distribution of individual stock returns. The second is an asymmetry in the dependence between stocks: stock returns appear to be more highly correlated during market downturns than during market upturns. In this article w...

Silicon Valley is known for its amazing workspace and perks. Due to Equity Theory and Two-factor Theory, employees should be content and stay longer. However, studies have found that there's a higher rate of job-hopping, which seems like a contradiction (Fallick et al, 2006). Participants were 135 engineers, ages 18 to 35 years old, who completed an online survey looking at job satisfaction, jo...

Emotion has become one of the most popular—and popularized—areas within organizational scholarship. This chapter attempts to review and bring together within a single framework the wide and often disjointed literature on emotion in organizations. The integrated framework includes processes detailed by previous theorists who have defined emotion as a sequence that unfolds chronologically. The em...

Historically, at least three methodological problems have dogged experimental social psychology: the experimental control/mundane realism tradeoff, lack of replication, and unrepresentative sampling. We argue that immersive virtual environment technology (IVET) can help ameliorate if not solve these methodological problems and, thus, holds promise as a new social psychological research tool. In...