The current study tested whether the perception of angry faces is cross-culturally privileged over that of happy faces, by comparing perception of the offset of emotion in a dynamic flow of expressions. Thirty Chinese and 30 European-American participants saw movies that morphed an anger expression into a happy expression of the same stimulus person, or vice versa. Participants were asked to st...

Among the many ways in which workers can get safety information, the role of equipment warning labels has not been well articulated. Presumably, warning labels help prevent accidents, but questions remain about how well those labels can be expected to work. This essay describes how contextual analysis can assist our understanding of warning label effectiveness. A contextual approach was concept...

On April 10 economist John R. Lott, Jr., formerly of the American Enterprise Institute, filed a defamation lawsuit against economist Steven D. Levitt of the University of Chicago and HarperCollins, the publisher of Levitt's 2005 book, Freakonomics. At issue is what Levitt meant when he wrote that scholars could not "replicate" Lott's results, referring to Lott's 1998 book, More Guns, Less Crime...

Two experiments designed to examine the specificity of emotional source memory are reported. In the encoding phase, participants saw faces along with emotional context information, that is, descriptions of cheating, trustworthy, or irrelevant behavior. In the test phase, participants were required to complete a source classification test and a cued recall test. In both experiments, the source m...

at the time of the survey, a rate essentially unchanged from 1997. For low-income adults, rates of employer-sponsored coverage increased from 39 percent in 1997 to 42 percent in 1999. Low-income adults in Alabama, Colorado, and Massachusetts saw their uninsurance rates fall the most. In Massachusetts, this decline was driven by growth in Medicaid coverage, while in Alabama and Colorado there wa...

BACKGROUND After an epidemic rise in Australian young male suicide rates over the 1970s to 1990s, the period following the implementation of the original National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NYSPS) in 1995 saw substantial declines in suicide in young men. AIMS To investigate whether areas with locally targeted suicide prevention activity implemented after 1995 experienced lower rates o...

A mild slope wave equation is derived which governs the propagation of linear surface waves in the presence oflarge ambient currents. The equation is shown to differ from two previously derived models, and arguments for the validity of the new version in comparison to previous versions are presented. A linearizcd evolution equation and parabolic equation approximation are constructed in order t...

A devotion to music in Chinese classical texts is worth noticing. Early Chinese thinkers saw music as a significant part of human experience and a core practice for philosophy. While Confucian endorsement of ritual and music has been discussed in the field, Daoist understanding of music was hardly explored. This paper will make a careful reading of the Xiánchí Article On Sound: Reconstructing a...