The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the teaching and learning in international higher education. Those of us global South have particularly been hard hit, struggling balance working/ functioning economies, a healthcare system, education, commerce, trade, transport, community spread what was later found be very infectious disease (Porter et al., 2021; Rogerson & Rogerson, 2020; Shamas...

Metaphorical expressions linking love and jealousy to tastes are common in normal language use and can create the assumption that they reflect embodied processes. Hence, we investigated if the phenomenological experiences of love and jealousy would be embodied in taste sensations of sweetness, sourness, and bitterness respectively. In Study 1, participants identified metaphors relating love to ...

Parental use of love withdrawal is thought to affect children's later psychological functioning because it creates a link between children's performance and relational consequences. To investigate whether love withdrawal is also associated with the underlying level of basic information processing in the brain, we studied event-related potentials to feedback stimuli that combined performance fee...

DEDICATION To my parents for their endless encouragement To Colin for his patience and love & To all animals For teaching me to love behavior v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my great appreciation for my wonderful advisor Melinda Novak for guiding me through this project, for giving me the opportunity to discover my true passion for ethology, and providing me with the incredibly valuab...