The presence of fat-mobilizing activity in the pituitary gland was first demonstrated by Best & Campbell (1936). More recently a series of studies have been carried out on a lipid-mobilizing factor which has been extensively purified from the anterior pituitary gland (Rudman & Seidman, 1958; Rudman, Seidman & Reid, 1960; Di Girolamo, Rudman, Reid & Seidman, 1961; Rudman, Seidman, Brown & Hirsch...

objectives: emotion regulations refer to the ability of experiencing emotions as a basic human capacity and the experience of the basic emotions happiness, anger, sadness and fear are considered as reular characteristics among nations. in school-age children, problems in socioemotional development typically shows themselves as challenging, socially disruptive paterns of behavior. the purpose of...

Do people want to feel emotions that are familiar to them? In two studies, participants rated how much they typically felt various emotions (i.e., familiarity of the emotion) and how much they generally wanted to experience these emotions. We found that, in general, people wanted to feel pleasant emotions more than unpleasant emotions. However, for both pleasant and unpleasant emotions, people ...

Primary cultures of rat hypothalamic neurons were found to secrete the potent calcium-mobilizing and mitogenic peptide endothelin (ET) and to contain specific ET binding sites with higher affinity for ET-1 and ET-2 than ET-3. ET receptors of similar specificity were also identified in two gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal cell lines (GT1-1 and GT1-7). In both primary cultures and G...

This paper provides an article-length overview of the first half of a book manuscript that is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. It is not intended to be a stand-alone piece; there are some loose ends in the paper that are addressed elsewhere in the larger manuscript. Nevertheless, the paper sketches out the core arguments from the first half of the book about party system transformat...

CONTEXT Studies suggest that the mass media is a common source of cancer information for the public. However, the quality of cancer information through various print outlets has not been extensively investigated. OBJECTIVES To assess the accuracy of cancer information in a retrospective sample of Ontario daily newspapers as well as to determine the amount of mobilizing (enabling) information ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of coping processes on psychophysiological and psychological responses in stressful settings. In particular, we focused on the effects of a combination of active and avoidant coping processes. Subjects were 40 healthy undergraduate male students (mean=19.80, S.D.=0.97) who were randomly divided into four groups: (a) an effort coping group...

One’s own emotions may influence others’ behavior in a given social interaction. If one believes this, s/he has an incentive to game emotions—to strategically conceal a current emotion or display a non-experienced emotion—in an attempt to influence her/his counterpart. In a series of three experiments, we show that people deliberately conceal (experiment 1) or misrepresent (experiments 2 and 3)...

The main difficulties that researchers face in understanding emotions are difficulties only because of the narrowmindedness of our views on emotions. We are not able to free ourselves from the notion that emotions are necessarily human emotions. I will argue that if animals have emotions, then so can robots. Studies in neuroscience have shown that animal models, though having limitations, have ...