Emotionally valenced words have thus far not been empirically examined in a bilingual population with the emotional face-word Stroop paradigm. Chinese-English bilinguals were asked to identify the facial expressions of emotion with their first (L1) or second (L2) language task-irrelevant emotion words superimposed on the face pictures. We attempted to examine how the emotional content of words ...

Parent-child coercion typically emerges in toddlerhood with the child's first acts of willful defiance and the parent's first disciplinary attempts. We explored how parents and children may contribute to this process by examining bidirectional and interactive effects between child and maternal negative behavior in 310 low-income, ethnically diverse boys. Using multiple informants and methods, c...

Although there is evidence that the promoter polymorphism of the serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) gene is associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), the pathways underlying these associations are largely unknown. Given their theoretical and biological plausibility, we tested whether individual differences in key temperament dimension...

Henriksson, M. P. 2015. Human Rationality. Observing or Inferring Reality. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 110. 81 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9185-7. This thesis investigates the boundary of human rationality and how psychological processes interact with underlying regularities in the environment and ...

Economic theory reduces the concept of rationality to internal consistency. As far as beliefs are concerned, rationality is equated with having a prior belief over a “Grand State Space”, describing all possible sources of uncertainties. We argue that this notion is too weak in some senses and too strong in others. It is too weak because it does not distinguish between rational and irrational be...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of a measure of children's dispositional prosocial behavior (i.e., peer nominations) to individual differences in children's negative emotionality, regulation, and social functioning. Children with prosocial reputations tended to be high in constructive social skills (i.e., socially appropriate behavior and constructive coping) and attentio...

It was observed that in all circles of discussion, Africans talk about decolonisation and turning away from systems favour the West disfavour Africans. Thinkers like Molefi K. Asante, Chukwunyere, others have approached this matter at an angle Afrocentrism. They intend to present African views undiluted perspective. However, within struggle, it is quite noticeable basic education system has not...

Breaking news and events are often posted in the blogosphere before they are published by any media agency. Therefore, the blogosphere is a valuable resource for news-related blog analysis. However, it is crucial to first sort out newsunrelated content like personal diaries or advertising blogs. Besides, there are different levels of emotionality or involvement which bias the news information t...