There are many ways in which researchers ask participants about their personal goals or projects, yet findings subsequently considered interchangeable. This study experimentally tested whether different of asking elicits and impacts reports goal progress. Undergraduate (N = 285) were assigned to one three conditions (personal goals, open-ended goals)...

When groups receive negative feedback on their progress toward a set goal, they often escalate rather than temper their commitment. To attenuate such escalation, we suggest initiating a self-distancing response (i.e., taking the perspective of a neutral observer) by forming implementation intentionswhen,where, and how toact (i.e.,making if-then plans). Implementation intentions should help grou...

children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd) react explosively and inappropriately to emotional stimuli. it could be hypothesized that these children have some impairment in attending to emotional cues. based on this hypothesis, we conducted this study to evaluate visual directions of children with adhd towards paired emotional scenes.thirty boys between the ages of 6 and 11 ye...

Does the existence of secondary markets for durable goods affect price and allocation on primary markets? We study competitive equilibria for durable goods where the possibility of future trade on secondary markets does not affect consumer behaviour in the primary market, provided consumers are exponential discounters. If consumers are hyperbolic discounters, however, secondary markets are no l...

Two studies with the same goal, but different instruments, investigated correlation between basic personality traits and electrodermal reactivity to aversive visual stimuli. Study 1 focused on Five Factor Model traits, while in 2, we HEXACO model, an additional trait, Disintegration. In 1, emotional was expressed using Polyscore, a composite polygraph measure which response (EDR) had largest we...

Alrstract--We consider the robust stability problem for a class of uncertain neutral time-delay systems where the characteristic equations involve a polytope ~ of quasipolynomials of neutral type. Given a stability region D in the complex plane our goal is to find a constructive technique to verify the D-stability of ~ (i.e. to verify whether the roots of every quasipolynomial in ~ all belong t...

We introduce a novel genotype-phenotype mapping based on the relation between RNA sequence and its secondary structure for the use in evolutionary studies. Various extensive studies concerning RNA folding in the context of neutral theory yielded insights about properties of the structure space and the mapping itself. We intend to get a better understanding of some of these properties and especi...

The basic underpinnings of homeostatic behavior include interacting with positive items and avoiding negative ones. As the planning aspects of goal-directed actions can be inferred from their movement features, we investigated the kinematics of interacting with emotion-laden stimuli. Participants were instructed to grasp emotion-laden stimuli and bring them toward their bodies while the kinemat...

An emotional memory advantage has been found across the life span where recall is better for emotional (as opposed to neutral) stimuli. Our goal was to design emotionally valent word lists for easy use by practitioners and to test whether demented and healthy elderly participants showed an emotional memory advantage with these lists. Three new word lists (a positive, a negative, and a neutral l...