Individuals sometimes alter their self-views to be more similar to others--traditionally romantic partners--because they are motivated to do so. A common motivating force is the desire to affiliate with a partner. The current research examined whether a different motivation--romantic jealousy--might promote individuals to alter their self-views to be more similar to a romantic rival, rather tha...

This study examined the role of waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and shoulder-to-hip ratio (SHR) of the rival in evoking jealousy in an adult sample of 70 men and 69 women. Women paid more attention to the rivals waist, hips, and hair, and men paid more attention to the rivals shoulders. Potential rivals with a low as opposed to a high waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) evoked more jealousy in women than in men,...

In this paper, we propose the concept of rival for verifying hypothesis in speech recognition. A likelihood ratio test, based on the rivals model, are investigated for utterance verification in continuous speech recognition. We present a data selection strategy to identity useful subsets of training data to train rival model automatically from training data. And a single pass strategy for utter...