Two studies examined interactions of implicit power motivation and experimentally varied victory or defeat in a contest on implicit learning of a visuomotor sequence associated with the contest outcome and changes in testosterone and self-reported affect. In men and women, power motivation predicted enhanced learning (sequence-execution accuracy) after a victory and impaired learning after a de...

Marine textiles form a vital part of our cultural heritage. Some extant sails and surviving sail fragments in museum collections are hundreds of years old. The Victory sail, from the early 19th century, was not only subject to the ravages of the marine environment during its working life but has since suffered further deterioration during storage and display. To determine the optimum protocol f...

This article reports the results of several field experiments designed to measure campaign effects in partisan contests. The findings suggest incumbent campaigns failed to increase incumbent vote share, whereas the challenger campaign was effective. To understand these and other results, the incumbent’s optimal spending strategy was analyzed theoretically. The analysis reveals that if incumbent...

The politics of memory World War II underlies the public and political discourses in contemporary Russia Serbia, with elites using narrative victory against fascism as a unifying legitimising tool. heroic war is also outward-oriented underpins ever-closer relations between two countries. This article explores how exports engages introducing concept diplomacy form diplomacy. Based on travelling ...

The subject of this publication is related to such directions modern linguistics as critical discourse analysis, media linguistics, and text semantics. article examines the features Ukraine on example antonymic semantic relations that are result discursive practice. demonstrates facts emergence functioning pseudo-antonymic opposition. research based economic topics articles published in Ukraini...

The current study examined a prediction derived from the challenge hypothesis; individuals who viciously win a competition of rank order will seek out pornography relatively more often than individuals who viciously lose a competition. By examining Google keyword searches during the 2006 and 2010 midterm elections in the United States, the relative popularity of various pornography keyword sear...

S ince the official beginning of artificial intelligence back in 1956, AI has experienced several ups and downs. Today, it’s at another peak, fueled by better algorithms, more data, and stronger computing power. AI is no longer a topic discussed only by researchers; the masses have started to take notice, especially since Google’s AlphaGo program beat Lee Sedol, a human champion of the game Go....