Predictors of 12-month prevalence of sexual infidelity were examined in a population-based sample of married individuals (N = 2,291). Predictor variables were organized in terms of involved-partner (e.g., personality, religiosity), marital (e.g., marital dissatisfaction, partner affair), and extradyadic (e.g., parenting) variables. Annual prevalence of infidelity was 2.3%. Controlling for marit...

In the vast majority of cases linguistic comprehension does not care much about what there is in the world and what state the world is in. Comprehension is often satisfied with satisfaction: you have understood somebody’s statement once you have set up a model that satisfies the statement. But occasionally reality matters. When Albert confesses to Bob: “I ́m having an affair with your wife”, and...

Abstract During the political and military upheavals between 1770s 1820s, societies states across Atlantic world grappled with intricate issues of belonging sovereignty. Along rise new concepts national citizenship, older monarchical or imperial subjecthood underwent fundamental changes. While scholars tend to ascribe these transformations revolutionary innovation, movement hundreds thousands r...

Glucocorticoids exert a wide variety of physiological and pathological responses, most of which are mediated by the ubiquitously expressed glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The glucocorticoid response varies among individuals, as well as within tissues from the same individual, and this phenomenon can be partially explained through understanding the process of generating bioavailable ligand and the...

You’ve heard it all before, perhaps: the epic story of an uncooperative lab director with communication problems; a disenfranchised and disillusioned whistleblower with a mission, a world-renowned but obstinate scientist; a powerful congressman with a mandate to ensure that the taxpayer’s money is used responsibly; a duo of unofficial but intellectually well-armed and ethically uncompromising i...

This essay provides a summary of my professional activities. My interest in renal physiology started as a medical student in Vienna, when I became acquainted with Homer Smith's essays on kidney function. After moving to the United States in 1951, I was fortunate to be mentored by Robert Pitts, in whose Department of Physiology at Cornell Medical College in New York I was given early independenc...

The historically prevailing view in the network literature has been that relationships within networks develop gradually and cumulatively over time, with power playing what might be termed a ‘concrete’ role in such a process, based primarily on identifiable resource dependencies. The concept of (Foucauldian) ‘system power’, beginning to emerge in the management and organisation literature, is n...