Patient as Gift

Hay fever as a Christmas gift.

The authors reply: We appreciate the additional points raised by Rao et al. and would underscore the importance of early initiation of antitoxin treatment in cases of suspected botulism. A retrospective analysis of 132 cases of foodborne botulism reported to the CDC from 1973 through 1980 showed a median hospital stay of 10 days if patients received antitoxin within 24 hours after symptoms bega...

Running head : Gift Giving in Courtship Gift Giving as Costly Signaling in Courtship Contexts

Social scientists from a variety of fields have grappled with questions about why gift giving exists and where its utility comes from because it is economically inefficient. Economic models of sexual relationships (e.g., Baumeister & Vohs, 2004) propose that gifts given by men are motivated by attempts to barter for access to sex. We offer an alternative model, based on costly signaling theory ...

Evolution's Gift

A particular system of brain mechanisms, called the retinoid system, is proposed as the evolutionary adaptation responsible for the existence of subjectivity and our sense of being here in a surrounding 3D world. The structural and dynamic properties of the retinoid system successfully predict a novel conscious experience in which the brain constructs a vivid visual representation of an object ...

Accepting Our Lives as Gift: Hospitality and Post-Critical Ethics

A Gift of Time

How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers’ overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks, we estimate the probability that an individual would have been affected by the reform. Reduced-form e...