Departing is such sweet sorrow

A Sorrow Shared Is a Sorrow Halved: Moral Judgments of Harm to Single versus Multiple Victims

We describe a bias in moral judgment in which the mere existence of other victims reduces assessments of the harm suffered by each harmed individual. Three experiments support the seemingly paradoxical relationship between the number of harmed individuals and the perceived severity of the harming act. In Experiment 1a, participants expressed lower punitive intentions toward a perpetrator of an ...

Survival is sweet

utrition and cell death are integrated in a single mitochondrial complex, according to Nika Danial, Stanley Korsmeyer (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), and colleagues. The complex was discovered after gel filtration of the pro-apoptotic BAD protein, and contains BAD, a phosphatase, kinase, and kinase-anchoring protein directed at BAD, and glucokinase. In cells lacking BAD, the complex falls...

Short is sweet.

Scientific publishing seems to be moving in several contradictory directions. Against these conflicting trends, EMBO reports seeks to re-assert the importance of the short-format article, carrying a single key message of ground-breaking significance. Fears that open access and online publishing would turn science into a vast, unmoderated blog have, so far, proven unfounded. However, an obvious ...

Man of unconscious sorrow.

Brosschot et al. in this issue [1] make a cogent and compelling argument for researchers to pay more attention to the role of unconscious processes. They argue that the prolonged physiological activity of the type that that produces wear and tear on the body and eventual stressrelated illness may be more due to unconscious worry and distress than researchers have previously recognized. This unc...

Comments from the departing Editor.