1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Safety measures like airbags and safety belts are nowadays commonly applied to improve the crash worthiness of road vehicles. Many governments stimulate or oblige by law car producers to include these devices in the vehicle design. Maximum values are imposed on parameters that quantitatively describe the severity of injuries. Examples are the Head Injury Criterion (HIC...

When a construct is primed, people often act in construct-consistent ways. Several accounts for this effect have been offered, including ideomotor theory and a social functional perspective. The authors tested an additional perspective, the Active-Self account, whereby primes can temporarily alter self-perceptions. In Study 1, non-African American participants reported feeling more aggressive o...

When a construct is primed, people often act in construct-consistent ways. Several accounts for this effect have been offered, including ideomotor theory and a social functional perspective. The authors tested an additional perspective, the Active-Self account, whereby primes can temporarily alter self-perceptions. In Study 1, non-African American participants reported feeling more aggressive o...

Background: Aging is very important these days, because the population of the elderly in the world is increasing day by day. Therefore, the present study is aimed at investigating the relationship between the tendency to the stability of the relationship and the feeling of loneliness in the elderly in Gonabad in 1396. Methods: This is a cross-sectional-correlational study. The statistical popu...

background : vaginismus is an involuntary spasm of the muscles of the outer third of the vagina caused by real or anticipated attempt of vaginal penetration.  it could lead to marital disharmony, guilt feeling and depression.  cognitive behavioral models for therapy of this disorder have gained considerable attention during last three decades.   objective: to determine the efficacy of self-fing...

A mathematical model was developed for estimating the net present value (NPV) of the cash flow resulting from an investment in an intervention to prevent occupational low back pain (LBP). It combines biomechanics, epidemiology, and finance to give an integrated tool for a firm to use to estimate the investment worthiness of an intervention based on a biomechanical analysis of working postures a...

The vestibular system is a sensory system that has evolved to detect linear and angular acceleration of the head in all planes so that the brain is not predominantly reliant on visual information to determine self-motion. Since the vestibular system first evolved in invertebrate species in order to detect gravitational vertical, it is likely that the central nervous system has developed a speci...

Recent research suggests that self-righteousness is bounded, arising more reliably in evaluations of immoral actions than in evaluations of moral actions. Here, we test four implications of this asymmetry in self-righteousness and the mechanism explaining it. We find that people are less likely to make negative character inferences from their own unethical behavior than from others' unethical b...