In many group-living primates, males are dominant over females, but despite this dominance, they allow females access to resources during the period when females are sexually attractive but only then and not otherwise. Conventionally, such male ‘courtesy’ is explained as a special strategy to gain mating access to females. In the present paper I propose a simpler hypothesis that is based on an ...

Two inbred strains of Tsukuba Emotionality Rat (THE and TLE) and four hybrids derived from them were observed for ambulatory response in a novel environment as a measure of emotionality. The Runway Test (modified "timidity test") was run for successive three days. Mean transformed (square root) scores of ambulation for generation were subjected to Mendelian cross analysis. Total ambulation scor...

289  Dr. Meares is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney; Academic Head, Western Area of Sydney Mental Health Services. In this paper I suggest that the origins of the “contamination/ cleaning” form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) include a developmental history characterized by marked overprotectiveness allied with parental failure to respond to core aspects of the child’...

Taking as its starting point a 1978 article by film critic Molly Haskell, in which she described Gérard Depardieu “tactile […] grasping, eating, touching, coming to physical terms with everything sight”, this considers largely overlooked role, the committed revolutionary leader Georges Danton Andrzej Wajda’s (1983)—a historical role that reflects actor’s commitment relevance of Revolutionary po...

Research on gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at) has come a long way since the first empirical studies published in 2008. Based on a review of the findings on gelotophobia, its structure, causes and consequences, updates to the model are introduced emphasizing the context of the fear and its dynamic nature. More precisely, external and internal factors are seen to moderate the effects of...

Based on the comparative approach, narrative medicine and pathology diagnostics, article examines personal psychological deviations of characters in Anton Chekhov. The reveals main stages diagnosis interpretation hypochondria, melancholy, timidity from antiquity, where pathological features personality types temperament were associated with balance elements basic fluids human body, to Enlighten...

Anxiety is a reflection of an emotional state or set reactions that occur in person who perceives the situation as personally dangerous; it characterized by subjective feelings tension, worries, gloomy anticipation, and activation autonomic nervous system. The main functions anxiety are signaling, stimulation, adaptation. has three forms expression: physiological, psychological, behavioral. pro...

A key term in the sex/gender system informing the Latin textual tradition is the adjective mollis (‘soft’) along with its adverb molliter, the abstract noun mollitia or mollities, and the verb mollire. When referring to human beings, this set of words is closely associated with femininity, and the attribution of mollitia to men assigns a range of qualities to them which are marked in Roman term...

"The study ... of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself..." "For many years after James penned The Principles of Psychology ... most cognitive scientists ignored consciousness, as did almost all neuroscientists. The problem was felt to be either purely "phi...