Processing reflexive pronouns when they don’t announce themselves

Non-reflexive Non-argumental Clitic Pronouns of Spanish

When cells make a meal of themselves

O ne function of prions, the Jekyll-and-Hyde proteins behind illnesses such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and mad cow disease, has been identifi ed by Khosravani et al. The proteins calm brain cells, preventing them from dying of over-excitement. Only when a prion folds incorrectly does it trigger brain-ravaging diseases like CJD. The normally shaped version, which all body cells carry, pr...

Are Those with Darker Personality Traits more Willing to Corrupt When They Feel Anxious?

This unprecedented research endeavors to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) and corruption intention through the mediation of anxiety.  Based on the resource conservation theory, it is hypothesized that those higher in dark personality traits are more inclined to corrupt when they feel anxious. Having collected data...

Infants ask for help when they know they don't know.

Uncertainty monitoring is a core property of metacognition, allowing individuals to adapt their decision-making strategies depending on the state of their knowledge. Although it has been argued that other animals share these metacognitive abilities, only humans seem to possess the ability to explicitly communicate their own uncertainty to others. It remains unknown whether this capacity is pres...

What did they know, and when did they know it?

voted to ease monetary policy, which was widely reported as a lowering of interest rates. Although some interest rates fell with the Fed' s action, the declines were generally small, and over succeeding months market interest rates tended to rise. The yield on the Treasury' s 10-year note, for example, which had been 5.63 percent on January 30, and which closed at 5.60 percent on January 31, st...