This study examines the Social Dominance Orientation of players of the online role-playing game World of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft offers an opportunity to investigate social dominance and biological sex differences in an environment where there is no cultural dominance of one sex over another. Social Dominance Orientation has been found to be different between males and females, with mal...

The second year of life marks the beginning of empathic responsiveness to others' distress, a hallmark of human interaction. We examined the role of social understanding (self-other understanding and emotion understanding) and empathic disposition in individual differences in 12- to 24-month olds' responses to mothers' and an unfamiliar infant peer's distress (N = 71). Results reveal associatio...

the drug pump protein mrp2 is a membrane drug efflux transporter widely distributed in normal and tumor tissues. its role is thought to be crucial for the disposition of many drugs and their substrates in different tissues. in this study, we aimed to examine the effects of systematic inflammation induced by lipopolysaccharide (lps) on the expression and function of this transporter in rats. jug...

We examine how investor preferences and beliefs affect trading in relation to past gains and losses. The probability of selling as a function of profit is V-shaped; at short holding periods, investors are more likely to sell big losers than small ones. There is little evidence of an upward jump in selling at zero profits. These findings provide no clear indication that realization preference ex...

A deficiency of studies have explored the relationship between the psychopathic disposition and attributes of social functioning. The current investigation analyzed the relationships among these constructs in a non-institutionalized population of males (n=42) and females (n=50), with attention to both primary psychopathy and secondary psychopathy. The study was administered to members of natura...

this was a prospective cross-sectional study of consecutive transported patients by emergency medical service (ems) to a referral hospital. the goal of this study was the evaluation of emergency medical technician intermediate prediction about their transported patients disposition in emergency department of imam khomeini hospital. 2950 patients were transported to this hospital, questionnaires...

Prior research identified assorted relations between trait and social cognition models of personality and engagement in physical activity. Using a representative U.S. sample (N = 957), the goal of the present study was to test two alternative structural models of the relationships among the extraversion-related facet of activity, the conscientiousness-related facet of industriousness, social co...

in this paper disposition effect, selling winners and holding losers, in tehran stock exchange (tse) investment companies and its effect on these companies’ cash flows and performance using odean model has been reviewed and investigated. research findings show that the realized profit ratio is %19 higher than the realized loss ratio in all of investment companies in tse. this mean there is a be...