An extensive research literature in the behavioral sciences and medicine suggests that psychological and social factors may play a direct role in organic coronary artery disease (CAD) pathology. However, many in the medical and scientific community regard this evidence with skepticism. This chapter critically examines research on the impact of psychological and psychosocial factors on the devel...

Hervé Abdi, Vincent Guillemot, Aida Eslami and Derek Beaton School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Institut Pasteur (IP), C3BI, USR 3756 CNRS, Paris, France Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toro...

AFFILIATIONS: Altitude Research Center, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Dept. of OB/Gyn, and Dept. of 6 Health/Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO; Instituto Boliviano de Biología de 7 Altura, La Paz, Bolivia, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. 8 Anthroplogical Genetics Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, State College...

1 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia, 2 Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, 3 School of Applied Psychology and Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Behavioural Bases for Health, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Au...

James R. Hall, Hoa T. Vo, Leigh A. Johnson, April Wiechmann, Sid E. O’Bryant Institute of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Research, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, Fort Worth, USA Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Health and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, Fort Worth, USA Department of Internal Medicine, University of North Texas Health Science...

The Internet offers many new opportunities for behavioral researchers to conduct quantitative and qualitative research. Although the ethical guidelines of the American Psychological Association generalize, in part, to research conducted through the Internet, several matters related to Internet research require further analysis. This article reviews several fundamental ethical issues related to ...

Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at least can be induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including economics, finance, and marketing...

* Maryellen C. MacDonald, Neural, Informational and Behavioral Sciences Program, University of Southern California; Morten H. Christiansen, Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University. This research was supported by NSF Grant SBR-95-11270 and NIA Grant RO1 AG-11773. We thank Mark Seidenberg and David Plaut for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. Correspondence conce...