Catching (and counting) a cold

Catching rudeness is like catching a cold: The contagion effects of low-intensity negative behaviors.

In this article we offer a new perspective to the study of negative behavioral contagion in organizations. In 3 studies, we investigate the contagion effect of rudeness and the cognitive mechanism that explains this effect. Study 1 results show that low-intensity negative behaviors like rudeness can be contagious, and that this contagion effect can occur based on single episodes, that anybody c...

Catching a Passing Moment:

This report describes a hitherto-isolated culture in northern Pakistan that has recently under­ gone rapid exposure to the outside world. Rapid change in Karimabad, a town of 4,600 peo­ ple in the Hunza Valley, has caused conflicts between cultural inertia and the forces of progress and modernization to surface and produced visible instances of cultural persistence and adap­ tation. For example...

Catching a wave

Temporary circuits amplify spontaneous activity in the visual system of neonatal rats.

A prediction model for COPD readmissions: catching up, catching our breath, and improving a national problem

Frequent COPD exacerbations have a large impact on morbidity, mortality and health-care expenditures. By 2020, the World Health Organization expects COPD and COPD exacerbations to be the third leading cause of death world-wide. Furthermore, In 2005 it was estimated that COPD exacerbations cost the U.S. health-care system 38 billion dollars. Studies attempting to determine factors related to COP...

Innovation and catching-up