This article reexamines the prevailing conclusion that people are unaware of the different impressions they make, or that their differential meta-accuracy is poor. This conclusion emerged from research employing contextually undifferentiated designs that may have constrained differences in actual impressions, thereby limiting participants’ ability to demonstrate differential metaaccuracy. We ar...

houses and were leaders in their community, often masters of several prosperous apprentices with whom they took substantial premiums. Dr Burnby traces the apothecary's rise and clarifies his place in the confused state of medical practice in the early modern period. She describes too the other scientific preoccupations that we might exp6ct apothecaries to have, including chemistry and botany, a...

remarkable similarities between various striated muscles. This is not surprising, for, as a rule, structural differentiations once having proven their effectiveness are usually preserved through phylogeny and ontogeny; already established structure-function complexes, instead of being replaced by a de novo alternative solution to an emerging physiological problem, tend to persist in a modulated...

GENTLEMEN, Few persons, I imagine, are disposed to deny that obvious and great advantages may be derived from a visit to one or more of the chief centres of civilisation in Europe. To become an eye -witness to the profound influence exercised over social and political life by modes of thought and action widely different from those to which we have become habituated is mental discipline of the h...

TIERE is ample evidence to show that Samuel Johnson's ability to moderate his consumption of alcohol was so impaired that for long periods he was obliged to abstain. Hannah More described how, when she urged him 'to take a little wine, he replied, "I can't drink a little, child, therefore I never touch it. Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult." '1 When he was on Skye, L...

Statistics should be considered as a tool by the animal experimenter in much the same way that a chemical analysis or a radiation counter is used as a tool. Too often statistics is considered as something magical which can restore order out of chaos and perhaps absolve the experimenter from mistakes in logic and procedure. It is true of course that the statistician through his knowledge of stat...

This article develops and tests an evolutionay model of the growth, decline, and demographic dynamics of voluntay organizations. The model demonstrates a strong analogy between the adaptive landscape of Sewall Wright (1931) and the exploitation surfaces generated by a model of member selection and retention for voluntay associations. The article connects the processes of membership recruitment ...

In this article, we propose a random walk-based model to predict legislators’ votes on a set of bills. In particular, we first convert roll call data, i.e. the recorded votes and the corresponding deliberative bodies, to a heterogeneous graph, where both the legislators and bills are treated as vertices. Three types of weighted edges are then computed accordingly, representing legislators’ soci...

The exposure to crowding in everyday life leads to stress, frustration, anger and reduced coping abilities. The demands of living and working expose people to different situations irrespective of individual differences. Crowding is a personal, perceived state of mind that may occur owing to environmental realities i.e., high population density (Baron and Richardson, 2004). Crowding refers to th...

Unilateral friendships provide a powerful mechanism to study friendship formation, because these friendships contain interest in friendship, but have not yet become full, reciprocated friendship. This longitudinal study investigated whether the conversations of unilateral dyads identified in the fall were predictive of that dyad’s relationship status in the winter. I hypothesized that the conve...