INTRODUCTION Children watch television during most of their free time. They are exposed to advertisers' messages and are vulnerable to sophisticated advertisements of foods often detrimental to oral and general health. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of television advertisements on children, the relationship with oral health and to analyze the content of those advertisements. METHODOLO...

Cooperative behavior depends in part on a preference for equitable outcomes. Recent research in behavioral economics assesses variables that influence adult concerns for equity, but few studies to date investigate the emergence of equitable behavior in children using similar economic games. We tested 288 3to 6-year olds in an anonymous Dictator Game to assess how the value of the currency used ...

Wishful thinking (WT) implies the overestimation of the likelihood of desirable events. It occurs for outcomes of personal interest, but also for events of interest to others we like. We investigated whether WT is grounded on low-level selective attention or on higher level cognitive processes including differential weighting of evidence or response formation. Participants in our MRI study pred...

We analyzed three functions of Twitter (Favorite, Follow and Mention) from network structural point of view. These three functions are characterized by difference and similarity in various measures defined in directed graphs. Favorite function can be viewed by three different graph representations: a simple graph, a multigraph and a bipartite graph, Follow function by one graph representation: ...

background : life style is the ordinal and daily activities of individuals in their own lives that they accepted so, these activities affect their health status. the aim of the current study was to determine  teachers' life style in gorgan city in 2009. methods : in a cross-sectional study 336 teachers of elementary, mid and high school were recruited through random stratified sampling method. ...