Research suggests that the mind contains a set of adaptations for detecting alliances: an alliance detection system, which monitors for, encodes, and stores alliance information and then modifies the activation of stored alliance categories according to how likely they will predict behavior within a particular social interaction. Previous studies have established the activation of this system w...

says : During the month of July the General Election in England has occupied the thoughts of all who take an interest in Home politics, and it has struck me that perhaps the readers of the Indian Medical Gazette might be interested in a few remarks on the presence in Parliament of members of our profession at home, with lists of those who have, during the last ten 37ears, succeeded or failed in...

The present study tested a continuum model of paranoid symptom expression in a sample of African-American men receiving inpatient treatment in a state psychiatric hospital. The continuum measure comprised the scales of Distrust (DST), Perceived Hostility of Others (PHO), and False Beliefs and Perceptions (FBP) from the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview (PERI), reflecting mild to sever...

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SoTL stands for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The acronym, said "sottle" or "sote-all," describes research that involves rigorous examination of teaching and learning by faculty who are actively involved in the educational process. The number of natural-science faculty engaged in SoTL is increasing, and their important work has broad implications for the measurement and improvement ...

Globalization has brought both risks and opportunities to the sustainability of diverse language communities and has fostered new and increasingly dynamic linguistic identities. Global languages have emerged as a means of international communication. Alongside this comes the subsequent threat to many indigenous and minority languages, and the uneven distribution of power across different langua...