Our prior research has suggested a connection between progesterone (PROG) and implicit affiliation motivation, the non-conscious drive for positive social contact. In particular, experimental arousal of affiliation motivation led to relative PROG increase in women and men [Schultheiss, O.C., Wirth, M.M., Stanton, S.J., 2004. Effects of affiliation and power motivation arousal on salivary proges...

Although universal, the motivation to affiliate can vary as a function of individual differences and of the characteristics of the target. Three studies explored the extent to which religious beliefs and identity are related to social affiliation motivation. Because most religions advocate affiliation and provide opportunities for frequent experiences of affiliation, we reasoned that religious ...

For many years, public statistics in France, especially censuses, did not categorize the population on the basis of ethnicity. From the mid-1980s on, however, there has been a growing debate on immigration, leading to the progressive resurgence of the ethnicity question. The heated debate, challenging values so fundamental to French society, was fueled by the publication of a study on immigrant...

2 Informed citizenship is taken as fundamental to democratic governance. Deliberation, political participation and holding elected officials accountable for their actions presuppose an electorate capable of expressing informed opinions. In modern democracies, the institution entrusted with delivering relatively costless access to public affairs information is the news media. In recent years, ho...

The experimental research that looks into the effects of political humor on an individual's attitudes toward politics and politicians does not evaluate its long-term effects. With this in mind, this study aims to determine the possible effects that being exposed to humor which belittles politicians may have on an ordinary citizen's trust in them, while at the same time it observes the possible ...

The affiliation is missing for the sixth author. Laura Otero-García is affiliated with #4 and #6. There are errors in affiliation 4 for authors Carmen Vives-Cases and Laura Otero-García and in affiliation 6 for author Laura Otero-García. Affiliation 4 should be: CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain. Affiliation 6 should be: Nursing Section, Faculty of Medicine, Unive...

Acknowledgements: We thank Greg Carey for insightful comments on this manuscript. ABSTRACT Objectives: Contemporary scholarly debate emphasizes the importance of spouse selection on population stratification, typically focusing on the traits of spouses themselves. In this study spouses and their parents were analyzed to resolve the effects of direct spousal assortment from family background ass...

Our research focuses on the private benefits of politicians as board directors Spanish savings banks (cajas). We use hand-collected data political affiliation and personal loans 1,578 to investigate whether used through excessive loans, granted their parties, or institutions they represented. results show that a higher proportion is associated with larger better terms than those non-political d...