Standard economic models cannot capture the fact that information is often ambiguous, and is interpreted in multiple ways. Using a framework that distinguishes between the language in which statements are made and the interpretation of statements, we demonstrate that, unlike in the case where there is no ambiguity, players may come to have different beliefs starting from a common prior, even if...

People in a positive mood process information in ways that reinforce and maintain this positive mood. The current studies examine how positive mood influences responses to social comparisons and demonstrates that people in a positive mood interpret ambiguous information about comparison others in self-benefitting ways. Specifically, four experiments demonstrate that compared to negative mood or...

Antidepressants have become a treatment of choice for many chronic pain conditions, including back and osteoarthritis. In fact, antidepressants are the fourth most prescribed medication low in United States. But according to new study published BMJ January 2021, evidence may not add up their use treating certain conditions. systematic review meta-analysis, researchers found that limited role ma...

the educational system is designed for some students’ kind of minds (e.g., those with strengths in attention, memory, language, social skills), for others, it is a daily struggle. unfortunately, the academic setting rarely accounts for this variability. regardless, at some point in time (for whatever reason), almost all students “hit a wall” (or face a challenge) which can make them doubt wheth...

Vitiligo is a skin disease that has been known about for at least 5000 years, but little has been done to understand its causes or to evaluate possible treatment. It is not a painful condition and perhaps that is why it is often trivialized and left untreated. Vitiligo is characterized by depigmented areas of skin. There are several different theories One theory is that people develop antibodie...

Unpredictable environments can be anxiety-provoking and elicit exaggerated emotional responses to aversive stimuli. Even neutral stimuli, when presented in an unpredictable fashion, prime anxiety-like behavior and elicit heightened amygdala activity. The amygdala plays a key role in initiating responses to biologically relevant information, such as facial expressions of emotion. While some expr...

Harlequin ichthyosis is a rare and exceedingly severe form of congenital ichthyosis with an incidence of approximately 1 in 300,000 births. These patients are at a high risk for neonatalinfection and septicemia. Most affected infants die within the  first days or weeks of life.We report a male baby born with harlequin ichthyosis. There is limited information regarding the course and...

In this paper, we propose the MIML (Multi-Instance Multi-Label learning) framework for learning with ambiguous objects, where an example is described by multiple instances and associated with multiple class labels. Comparing with traditional learning frameworks, the MIML framework is more convenient and natural for representing ambiguous objects. To learn MIML examples, we propose the MimlBoost...