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In this study, the authors explored the use of positive, negative, and avoiding humor in 2 types of situations by individuals in romantic relationships. Participants (N = 154) rated their frequency of humor use in either a typical conflict scenario with their partner or a typical pleasant event. Participants also indicated their overall degree of romantic relationship satisfaction. Hierarchical...

Successful language comprehension requires one to correctly match symbols in an utterance to referents in the world, but the rampant ambiguity present in that mapping poses a challenge. Sometimes the ambiguity lies in which of two (or more) types of things in the world are under discussion (i.e., lexical ambiguity); however, even a word with a single sense can have an ambiguous referent. This a...

Value ordering heuristics play an important role in solving various problems. They allow to choose suitable values for particular variables to compute a complete and/or optimal solution. Usually, problem-specific heuristics are applied because problem-independent heuristics are computationally expensive. Here we propose an efficient problem-independent approach to value selection whose aim is t...

The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic upended work, family, and social life. These massive changes may have created shifts in exposure to work-life conflict. Using a national survey that followed Canadian workers from September into April June 2020, the authors find conflict decreased among those with no children at home. In contrast, for home, patterns depended on age of youngest child. Among ...

OBJECTIVES Goal intentions are the key proximal determinant of behavior in a number of key models applied to predicting health behavior. However, relatively little previous research has examined how characteristics of goals moderate the intention-health-behavior relations. The present research examined the effects of goal priority and goal conflict as moderators of the intention-health-behavior...

In this paper, we describe a passive on-line method for determining the conflict graph in a centralized wireless LAN. The key insight in our work is to exploit the relative timing between successfully received frames: if two successful frames sent on two different links overlap in time, then the corresponding links do not interfere; if they are consistently adjacent, then those links do interfe...

An organism's foraging range depends on the behavior of neighbors, the dynamics of resources, and the availability of information. We use a well-studied population of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus to develop and independently parameterize models that include these three factors. The models solve for an allocation of foraging ants in the area around the nest in response to other co...

A recent electrophysiological study suggests existing compensatory brain activity as a mechanism for functional recovery of visual attention detection (the capacity for detecting external cues) in symptomatically remitted schizophrenia patients. Despite such evidence, little is known about other aspects of attentional-related processes in schizophrenia during clinical remission, such as their c...

Two prominent explanations have been offered to explain the development of enduring rivalry. The evolutionary model stipulates that enduring rivalries are largely indistinguishable from lesser competitions at their outset and develop over time, taking on more distinctive conflict patterns as the adversaries recognize their long-term competition and react accordingly. In contrast, the punctuated...