Why Europe will suffer more

Choosing to Suffer as a Consequence of Expecting to Suffer: Why Do People Do It?

In three previous studies, most subjects who anticipated having to perform an unpleasant task (e.g., eat a worm) and who were then offered a choice of that or a neutral task chose the unpleasant task. It was hypothesized that this "choosing to suffer" effect was produced by the subjects' attempt to make sense of their anticipated suffering, through one of three kinds of change in their concepti...

Why Robots Will Have Emotions

Emotions involve complex processes produced by i n te rac t i ons between motives/ b e l i e f s / percepts , e t c . E.g. real or imagined f u l f i l m e n t or v i o l a t i o n of a mot ive/ or t r i g g e r i n g of a 'mot ive-genera tor ' / can d i s tu rb processes produced by other mot ives. To understand emotions/ t he re fo re / we need to understand motives and the types of processes...

Turf Wars in Stroke Medicine: Why Should Patients Suffer

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Why Drosophila is not Drosophila any more, why it will be worse and what can be done about it?

Formally, Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830 is still Drosophila; however, it just waits for the first formal revision of the genus. On the basis of a 23 : 4 vote, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature rejected the proposal (Kim van der Linde et al., 2007) to make an exception to the rules and to switch the type of the genus Drosophila from D. funebris to D. melanogaster in ...