Sir, It is intriguing that our article ‘Critical brain regions for tool-related and imitative actions: a componential analysis’ was the sole subject of a recent positive Scientific Commentary in Brain by Professor Georg Goldenberg ‘Challenging traditions in apraxia’ (Goldenberg, 2014) noting that the paper ‘excels by virtue of its methodical astuteness, large sample size and the clarity of its ...

Over the past few decades, in many western countries with large immigrant populations, inequalities in education relating to ethnic background have increased. Interventions traditionally consist of selective compensatory arrangements that focus on instruction in the second language--especially in early stages of schooling--and the treatment of issues of difference, equality and racism within th...

Motivation has been a central construct in theoretical and empirical efforts to understand the nature of prejudice and stereotyping. We briefly review core motivational underpinnings of prejudice and stereotyping, focusing on aspects of the human condition that help to explain why we are so prone to bias. The strong propensity toward stereotyping and prejudice along with the automatic manner in...

Advanced industrialized democracies have seen an increase in the ethnic and racial diversity of their populations, and the impact of this diversity for democratic politics has received increasing attention. In this paper, I examine the impact of increasing social diversity on young people's attitudes about speech rights in two countries: Canada and Belgium. In particular, this paper will examin...

The Five-Factor Model (FFM) is a comprehensive taxonomy of personality traits, which are tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions. Although it was originally identified in the United States, the model appears to describe personality structure well in a wide variety of cultures, suggesting that personality trait structure is universal. Age changes--decreases in N...

It is widely held that a sexual double standard exists such that women are evaluated more harshly than men for engaging in sexual activity. Previous research, however, has failed to document this sexual double standard reliably. We argue that previous research has been unable to identify the double standard because it has focused on the individual rather than the interpersonal dynamics that tak...

The present paper tries to discover the position of sense of humor in personality space. Several definitions of humor are discussed and a review of studies relating personality and humor is given. The authors’ conceptualization of humor is introduced and two studies are presented that tried to locate these humor dimensions within personality space. Our humor tests were given to two samples: the...

129 words) This review of 103 studies (140 independent samples, 10,967 subjects), found average r=.27 for prediction of a wide collection of behavioral, judgment, and physiological measures by Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures. Parallel explicit (i.e., self-report) measures, available in 2/3 of these studies, also predicted effectively (96 samples, 7,018 subjects, average r=.33), but wer...

Semantic Representations Thus far, our discussion of the representation of semantic memory has been confined to physical properties of concrete objects. When Allport articulated his theory of the representation of meanings, he limited himself, "for simplicity," to the domain of object concepts. Of course, any complete theory of semantic memory has a bit more work to do: there are abstract conce...

Using a videogame to simulate encounters with potentially hostile targets, three studies tested a model in which racial bias in shoot/don’t-shoot decisions reflects accessibility of the stereotype linking Blacks to danger. Study 1 experimentally manipulated the race-danger association by asking participants to read newspaper stories about Black (vs. White) criminals. As predicted, exposure to s...