Empathy allows us to understand and react to other people's feelings and sensations; we can more accurately judge another person's situation when we are aware of his/her emotions. Empathy for pain is a good working model of the behavioral and neural processes involved in empathy in general. Although the influence of perspective-taking processes (notably "Self" vs. "Other") on pain rating has be...

(I never could rememoer which)," after leaving Ushaw College, Durham, in July, 1877, became a medical student at Owen's College, Manchester. We do not know much more of his student days than of those of Keats, but whereas Keats qualified, Thompson never sat; at least, he never passed his medical examinations. Under the pressure of his family, he spent six years at this uncongenial task. He was ...

IT is widely recognised that many young people entering their first job meet with disillusionment and disappointment. At first glance, this seems rather surprising, since only a short time earlier the same individual boys and girls yearned to commence work, deplored the short-comings of their teachers, moaned about their home-work and hated the classroom. Perhaps after ten or twelve years of th...

Netflix, an online video rental company, recently announced a contest to spur interest in building better recommendation systems. Users of Netflix are able to rank movies on an integer scale from 1 to 5. A rating of 1 indicates that the user “hated it”, while 5 indicates they “loved it”. The objective of a recommendation system, or collaborative filter, is to provide users with new recommendati...

Thomas Szanto has recently argued that hatred could not be a fitting emotion because of its blurred focus. It thus cannot trace the properties intentional object. Although I agree with core Szanto?s account, would like to discuss two connected issues might importance. First, want address whether unfittingness anything do possibility hated person does identify what they are for. conclude if focu...

“[A]fter I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year” (Einstein, 1959, p. 17). This is Einstein’s explanation, in his autobiographical notes, for how coercive taking exams felt to him. Einstein is not the only scientist who found school demotivating. Charles Darwin, Carl Jung, and Michael Faraday also reported exp...

Fungal infections in humans range flom superficial and cutaneous (such as dermatophytoses) to deeply invasive and dissemi hated (such as candidiasis and cryptococcosis). Pathogenic fungi occur worldwide, although particular species may predominate in certain geographic areas. In the past 20 years, fungal infections have increased dramatically--paradoxically, as a resuh of medical advances. Fung...

I have always hated Internet chat rooms and studiously avoided them. To me, they are chaotic, confusing, and frustrating. I have also accepted the fact that on this question I am probably in the minority. I suspect that most students who participate in online courses have experience with chat and are quite comfortable with the fragmented and seemingly incoherent conversations that are the hallm...