Modern information systems not only capture a seemingly endless amount of transactional data, but also tend to retain it for indefinite periods of time. We argue that privacy policy must address not only collection and access to transactional information, but also its timely disposal. One unintended side-effect of data retention is the disappearance of social forgetfulness. Social forgetfulness...

Cognitive empathy (or theory of mind) is the capacity to understand others' thoughts and feelings, while affective tendency be affected by feelings. There evidence that successful attentional control related increased cognitive but reduced empathy. Here, we investigated whether relates real-world failures, which are associated with control. We examined relationship between individual difference...

The Absentmindedness and Memory Questionnaire (AMQ) is a new self-rating scale designed to evaluate everyday memory problems related to absentmindedness. It includes 24 items and is based on studies of different samples (N= 623). Its test-retest reliability is high and it has consistently shown similar factor structure. The AMQ thus measures four weakly correlated factors: Absentmindedness, Per...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the action and coping plans related to the behavior of adhering to drug therapy, developed by coronary heart disease (CHD) outpatients, and to identify the barriers perceived to adopting this behavior. METHODS the participants (n=59) were invited to formulate action plans and coping plans for the behavior of adhering to the cardio-protective medications and the symptom-re...

Many healthy individuals perceive themselves as forgetful and are interested in interventions to decrease their worries and increase their memory functioning. Educational interventions can be more effective when determinants are targeted that are known to predict perceived forgetfulness. In the present study, first, a broad range of determinants was selected from the literature and from experie...

The neuropsychological performance of a group of 49 workers occupationally exposed to lead was compared with a matched control group of 36 non-exposed workers. The psychometric measurements were composed of tests covering a broad range of different neuropsychological functions, particular emphasis being given to perceptual motor ability and attention concentration functioning. A questionnaire t...

Yadin Dudai task A and the training on task B: groups trained on task B 5 min, 1 hr, or 4 hr after task A displayed progressively Department of Neurobiology The Weizmann Institute of Science better retention, respectively, of task A when tested a day later. The conclusion was that motor memory Rehovot 76100 Israel needed several hours to consolidate. Although there were earlier reports on retro...