Background and aims There are significant gaps in knowledge regarding the role of childhood adversity, interpersonal violence, and suicidal behavior in hypersexual disorder (HD). The aim of this study was to investigate interpersonal violence in hypersexual men compared with healthy volunteers and the experience of violence in relation to suicidal behavior. Methods This case-control study inclu...

BACKGROUND Effectively managing patient safety and clinicians' emotional exhaustion are important goals of healthcare organizations. Previous cross-sectional studies showed that teamwork is associated with both. However, causal relationships between all three constructs have not yet been investigated. Moreover, the role of different dimensions of teamwork in relation to emotional exhaustion and...

Several studies in cognitive neuroscience have investigated the cognitive and affective modulation of pain. By contrast, fewer studies have focused on the social modulation of pain, despite a plethora of relevant clinical findings. Here we present the first review of experimental studies addressing how interpersonal factors, such as the presence, behavior, and spatial proximity of an observer, ...

This study examined the relations among burn stigma, quality of life, resilience, and life satisfaction, hypothesizing that higher stigma lower burn-related would lead to satisfaction; however, resilience moderate this relation. A sample 89 participants was recruited from an outpatient clinic a center in critical care hospital. Participants completed battery measures assessing these constructs....

This paper advocates the development of general models of dialog dynamics: across observables such as prosody, gesture, facial expression, proxemics, posture and gaze; across functions such as turn-taking, meta-communication, interpersonal relation management, and affect expression; and largely independently of semantic content. The paper also suggests a way to frame dialog dynamics as a machin...