for other reasons no doubt, the papers will be of unequal value to readers of 'Mental Health'. Paradoxically, those on the basic sciences may be of more use than those on the applied, despite the fact that they are by now three years out of date and that willingness to follow the leads provided into other literature will require a fair degree of sophistication. The other papers have little to s...

The Gender-Career Estimation Gap The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the selfand reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this frame, the instance of self-under-estimated career prospects of female workers and statistical discrimination in the labor market are described. Both aspects are jointly...

Warren was a philosopher and scientist. As a freshman at Haverford College he told the Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones that all he wanted to know was: "What is a number that a man may know it; and a man, that he may know a number?" To this the Quaker famously replied: "Friend, thee will be busy as long as thee lives." Warren acknowledged in his last days that the prophecy had been fulfilled, and...

Research demonstrates that facial appearance affects social perceptions. The current research investigates the reverse possibility: Can social perceptions influence facial appearance? We examine a social tag that is associated with us early in life—our given name. The hypothesis is that name stereotypes can be manifested in facial appearance, producing a face-name matching effect, whereby both ...

Because a significant part of individuals' lives involve close relationships, an important and substantial part of the situations they encounter consists of other people's behaviors. We suggest that individuals' characteristic ways of behaving, which are typically attributed to "personality," arise from two processes. One lies primarily within the individual, conceptualized as individual differ...

The construction industry is often described as mature, conservative and resistant to change in research studies, governmental reports as well as in media. Both scholars and policy makers thereby find it critical to encourage innovation, development, and change within the construction industry. This study takes on a different perspective by investigating changes that have actually taken place. ...

The recently published points of zero charge (PZC) and isoelectric points (IEPs) of various materials are compiled to update the previous compilation [M. Kosmulski, Surface Charging and Points of Zero Charge, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009]. Unlike in previous compilations by the same author [Chemical Properties of Material Surfaces, Dekker, New York, 2001; J. Colloid Interface Sci. 253 (2002)...

In this paper we analyze the relaxed form of a shape optimization problem with state equation { − div ( a(x)Du ) = f in D boundary conditions on ∂D. The new fact is that the term f is only known up to a random perturbation ξ(x, ω). The goal is to find an optimal coefficient a(x), fulfilling the usual constraints α ≤ a ≤ β and ∫ D a(x) dx ≤ m, which minimizes a cost function of the form