OBJECTIVES To assess participants' acquaintance with and willingness to try healthful food alternatives, and to test the psychometric properties of an adapted Dutch version of the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS) in order to study the role of food neophobia in this context. DESIGN A cross-sectional study incorporating two web-based questionnaires, including a retest of the FNS one week later. Measu...

A defining feature of passionate love is idealization--evaluating romantic partners in an overly favorable light. Although passionate love can be expected to color how favorably individuals represent their partner in their mind, little is known about how passionate love is linked with visual representations of the partner. Using reverse correlation techniques for the first time to study partner...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether pre-adolescents interacted more similarly and more positively in best friend pairs than those in acquaintance pairs and whether same-sex dyads interacted more similarly and more positively than opposite-sex dyads. Archival videotapes were coded for the face-to-face interaction behaviors of preadolescent best friend and acquaintance dyads and sa...

In this paper, we adopt a symbolic interactionist perspective on Multi-Agent Systems. We investigate the uses and genesis of agent models, both Self and acquaintance models and argue that the symbolic interactionist view is superior to the ad hoc, static and somewhat low-level approach adopted at present. We consider agent models|both Self and acquaintance models|as devices for making predictio...