This paper presents two studies that investigate how people praise and plUlish robots in a collaborative game s<:enario. In a firsl study. subjects played a game together with humans, computers, and anthropomorphic and womorphic robots. The different partners and the game ilselfwere presented on a computt'T screen. Results showed that praise and punishment were used the same way for compuler an...

Leafing through this morning’s Sunday paper, I could not help but feel a sense of unease about our current state of preventive medicine. A lead article in the opinion section argued that most of the elements of the “annual physical exam” are “in many ways pointless or (worse) dangerous.”1 Routine electrocardiograms are of “no use.” Another essay attacked the government’s guidelines for dietary ...

Cats are a beloved pet animal and widely exist in human society. Their unique appearance behavioral characteristics highly praised by people. This article will focus on discussing the main features classifications of cats, including their physical such as body size, hair color texture, shape size eyes ears, length tails; activity time style, social behavior, hunting skills, sleep habits;&nbsp; ...

â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...

Finland&rsquo;s integration policy is praised for its inclusivity and guaranteeing equal opportunities. This paper examines how processes work within such an ideal image. Building on theoretical critical discussions of racialisation, we approach as a mechanism racialisation discuss the consequences racialised practices Arabic-speaking refugees immigrants living in Finland. We move beyond establ...

In a sample of 291 adolescents (mean age 13 yr), seven psychosocial factors, including family support, were examined in relation to accelerometry-derived physical activity (PA) measured after school and during the weekend. Gender-specific stepwise linear regression analyses determined which combinations of factors explained the variance in nonschool moderate to vigorous PA and nonschool total P...

People were given highly constrained low budgets of mate dollars to allocate across various characteristics pertaining to their ideal partners and to their ideal selves for longand short-term mating. First, results replicated findings from Li et al. (2002) and Li & Kenrick (2006). For ideal long-term mates, men prioritized physical attractiveness and women prioritized social status. For ideal s...

The U.S. military, despite spending over $13 billion, appears powerless to stop the Iraqi insurgency’s improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which cause most of the military’s casualties and prevent victory by showing lawlessness and insecurity. However, this view ignores substitution effects we consider here. Using rational choice and expectations models, we find a backward-bending supply curve...

Despite the abundance of research linking frustration with prejudice, no research has examined the moderating role of personality. Two studies tested the prediction that narcissism would moderate the link between frustration and prejudice against immigrants in that individuals high in narcissism would show a stronger association than others. In Study 1 (n = 156), participants completed online s...