Evaluating other people's sincerity is a ubiquitous and important part of social interactions. Fourteen experiments (total N = 7,565; 10 preregistered; 11 in the main article, three online supplemental materials; with U.S. American British members public, French students) show that response speed an cue on which people base their inferences. Specifically, systematically judged slower (vs. faste...

It is rather contradictory that there a high demand for authenticity in today’s virtual space, where some platforms encourage the proliferation of idealized images, products digital alteration. Previous studies have examined how social media users perceive and credibility new celebrities—influencers—and impacts on advertising outcomes. Authenticity communication has been defined many ways, but ...

This article is about the trainee - tutor relationship between two eminent figures of Turkish medical history, namely Hamdi Suat Aknar (1873-1936) and Hulusi Behçet (1889-1948). Hamdi Suat Aknar was the pioneer of modern pathology in Turkey. Alongside his scientific achievements, he took educational activities seriously and exerted a great effort to train his students as proficient clinicians a...

A key feature of psychopathy is the ability to deceive, manipulate, and con the unwary, while seeming to be perfectly sincere. Is this impression of sincerity achieved solely through body gestures and facial expression, or is there also something different about the voice quality of psychopaths? We analyzed the acoustic characteristics of speech in 20 male offenders (10 psychopaths and 10 nonps...

Article history: Received 1 March 2015 Received in revised form 1 November 2015 Accepted 1 December 2015 Available online xxxx Many universities leverage symbolic qualitieswith the potential of creating a brand personality useful in competitive differentiation. Drawing on a series of qualitative and quantitative studies consistent with psychometric scale development procedures, this study devel...

Destination personality refers to human personality traits associated with a destination. It has become an important construct, as tourism managers attempt to understand people's choices to fi nd ways to diff erentiate their destination in an increasingly complex marketplace. Th e present paper outlines a study in which a destination personality scale was used that provides insight into diff er...

Health systems are serving increasingly ethnically diverse populations. This requires cultural sensitivity/competence. Sharing insights from multi-ethnic countries is important. Insights from Scotland, discussed in this paper, include that the creation of culturally sensitive health systems requires reduction of stigma associated with immigration and immigrants; the wider use of ethnicity along...

We consider a model where policy motivated citizens vote in two simultaneous elections, one for the President who is elected by majority rule, in a single national district, and one for the Congressmen, each of whom is elected by majority rule in a local district. The policy to be implemented depends not only on who is elected President but also on the composition of the Congress. We characteri...

Schapmire and colleagues have recently reported a study on ‘consistency of effort’ in this journal [9]. They conclude that pain does not reasonably explain the failure of a statistically based validity criteria for detecting sincerity of effort and that their protocol is appropriate for use in a client population. There are, however, some serious concerns surrounding this paper that we wish to ...

leaving behind him an enviable memory. We should do wrong to allow this sad event to pass without paying, in all sincerity and solemnity, the tribute due to one whose character was marked bv all that could command kindly regard and respect. Dr. Coiles entered the Indian Medical Service on the 27th of .Tanuarv. 1858. He died at Dinapoi ?e on the 8th of February, 1873. For about two weeks before ...