Neural processes that support individual differences in attachment security and affect regulation are currently unclear (Coan, 2010). Using EEG, we examined whether securely attached individuals, compared to insecure individuals, would show a muted neural response to experimentally manipulated distress. Participants completed a reaction time task that elicits error commission and the error-rela...

Abstract How can you obtain a satisfactory lexicon for a modern NLP application? Ten years ago the answer you might have received was to wait for the large-scale lexicons soon to be derived from machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs). Five years ago the advice would have proclaimed the virtue of standards; these were currently being agreed, and once that was done, easy-to-use lexical resources co...

A string of theoretical papers shows that the non-exclusivity of credit contracts generates important negative contractual externalities. Employing a unique dataset, we identify how these externalities affect the supply of credit. Using internal information on a creditor’s willingness to lend, we find that a creditor reduces its credit supply when a borrower obtains a loan at another creditor (...

Changes in the terms of trade affect both the incentives and the ability of individuals to purchase education in a credit-constrained economy. A model is developed that shows how individual decision-making is affected in a small economy when it opens up to trade. Empirical results indicate that credit constraints are an important factor influencing school enrollment rates, particularly in low i...

Speakers’ spontaneous gestures are traditionally thought of as a dependent system, their meaning relying heavily on what is expressed verbally. Nonetheless, studies using muted videos as stimuli consistently report that gestures have some degree of communicative import in the absence of speech. Here, we argue that the dependence-autonomy question can be advanced by adopting a functional (lingui...

Phosphorus sets the pace of marine biological productivity on geological time scales. Recent estimates of Precambrian phosphorus levels suggest a severe deficit of this macronutrient, with the depletion attributed to scavenging by iron minerals. We propose that the size of the marine phosphorus reservoir was instead constrained by muted liberation of phosphorus during the remineralization of bi...

This study aimed to establish factors that inhibit sexual abuse disclosure among adolescents: identify promote adolescents and develop strategies can early disclosure. Adolescents aged between 10 17 years (n = 12), who experienced disclosed immediately or after sometime, were purposively selected. A qualitative research approach which made use of the phenomenological design was used collect dat...

We investigate if prior professional legal education either restrains or increases the extent to which the insider trades of company executives and directors are informed. We show that lawyer-insiders earn significantly lower abnormal returns than non-lawyers when they purchase their own company’s shares. Purchases of own company stock by lawyer-insiders are associated with lower future earning...

Statistics has struggled for nearly a century over the issue of whether the Bayesian or frequentist paradigm is superior. This debate is far from over and, indeed, should continue, since there are fundamental philosophical and pedagogical issues at stake. At the methodological level, however, the fight has become considerably muted, with the recognition that each approach has a great deal to co...