NICOLE GONTHIER, Lyon et ses pauvres au moyen-age (1350-1500), Lyons, Editions L'Hermes, 1978, 8vo, pp. 271, illus., F.5 1.00 (paperback). This study is inspired by a desire to reveal those who have been "hidden from history" using whatever documents are available for the period. Relying heavily on wills, church archives, and fiscal documents, Gonthier has skilfully reconstructed the changing m...

If humans are sensitive to the costs and benefits of favouring kin in different circumstances, a strong prediction is that cues of relatedness will have a positive effect on prosocial feelings, but a negative effect on sexual attraction. Indeed, positive effects of facial resemblance (a potential cue of kinship) have been demonstrated in prosocial contexts. Alternatively, such effects may be ow...

Few sex differences in regret or counterfactual thinking are evident in past research. The authors discovered a sex difference in regret that is both domain-specific (i.e., unique to romantic relationships) and interpretable within a convergence of theories of evolution and regulatory focus. Three studies showed that within romantic relationships, men emphasize regrets of inaction over action (...

Extensive studies have been performed on host metabolic alterations resulting from infection by microorganisms. The activity of alkaline phosphatase (AP) in mouse tissues was found to be increased in small intestine and serum but decreased in liver during Diplococcus pneumoniae infection (G. Lust and W. R. Beisel, Clin. Res. 13:296, 1965). During an arbovirus infection of mice, changes in the e...

This article discusses the dynamics of personality from perspective Islamic psychology; study concepts anger, lawwamah, and muthmainnah, their correlation with faith, Islam Ihsan. With aim knowing in uses qualitative research based on literature (library research) a descriptive approach technical analysis content analysis. The results this indicate that is unique arrangement traits person lasts...

J. R. Tolkien is admitted as the father of modern fantasy literature. What often overlooked about him that he was a great intellectual, hoping to find an answer issues his time, at least in field which very good: Tolkien`s attitude Evil consists two parts terms Ring. The first traditional Augustinian, later Boethian view. According this view, evil itself nothing. It absence good. So it internal...