The bond-testing hypothesis suggests that social animals can obtain honest information about the quality of their dyadic relationships by exchanging costly, high-risk signals (Zahavi & Zahavi 1997). We evaluated this hypothesis by investigating whether adult male baboons use intense greeting interactions to test the quality and strength of their social bonds. Intense greetings involve intimate ...

It is a great honor and responsibility for me to take over the duty of the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Allergy after the founding Editor-in-Chief, professor Sang-Il Lee, and the second Editor-in-Chief, professor Connie H. Katelaris. Asia Pacific Allergy, the official journal of Asia Pacific Association of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), has been very successful since its...

Use of mercury as a component of restorative material is continuing to generate controversy. There is no doubt that dental amalgam is a very good restorative material. However, at the same time, there are serious health issues with mercury. Whether the amount of mercury in the mouth can cause any serious effect is still very much controversial. Composite resin, the popular alternative material ...

The purpose of this paper is to consider the contribution of prosody to discourse analysis in interaction by means of a concrete example, i.e., the analysis of bonjour, a French greeting. In this experiment, naïve subjects were made to listen to a series of French politeness formulae taken from real interactions and asked to evaluate the degree of politeness they perceived. Two hypotheses were ...

Close friends and family play an important role in adults' lives, but little is known about the implications of infrequent or peripheral social ties that adults maintain. Eighty-seven adults, ranging in age from 24 to 87 years (M = 51.25) provided information about their holiday card networks. Participants completed surveys for up to 25 cards that they received during one holiday season (n = 1,...