Romantic Affinities?

Romantic Theory

The invitation to participate in the seminar on Theory was simultaneously pleasing and puzzling: I was pleased to be paired with Tilottama Rajan, towards whose work I am intellectually sympathetic, but puzzled by the rubric under which I was asked to articulate the relation of my Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol to her Dark Interpreter. My only contributions to what is conventionally understood...

Romantic Cryptography

We show how Alice and Bob can establish whether they love each other, but without the embarrassement of revealing that they do if the other party does not share their feelings. This is a “secure multiparty computation” of the AND function, where the participants cooperate in producing the result of the AND, but without learning the input bit contributed by the other party unless the result

Uncanny affinities

Romantic Selectivity 1 Running Head: ROMANTIC SELECTIVITY Arbitrary Social Norms Influence Sex Differences in Romantic Selectivity

Men tend to be less selective than women when evaluating and pursuing potential romantic partners. The present experiment employed speed-dating procedures to test a novel explanation for this sex difference: The mere act of physically approaching a potential romantic partner (versus being approached), a behavior that is more characteristic of men than of women, increases one’s attraction to tha...

Affinities or Apparent Affinities of the Transport Adenosine Triphosphatase System

The interactions of potassium ions and ATP on transport ATPase activity are discussed, and the interpretation of these interactions is shown to be often ambiguous. Caldwell's (1968) Physiological Review model is discussed with particular reference to the observed kinetics of sodium: sodium exchange in red cells. Recent experimental work on the properties of the ouabain-sensitive component of po...