We examined the importance of adult children’s ties with biological parents and stepparents for well-being in adulthood. particularly focused on situations which children are not close new partner their parent, stepparent. Following balance theory, it is straining to be an unbalanced pattern (i.e., stepparent). Firstly, we studied how many adults parent only (dissonance), both stepparent (posit...

The aetiology of 197 girls and 16 boys presenting with sexual precocity was reviewed. Ninety one girls and four boys had central precocious puberty (M:F 23:1); a cause was identified in all the boys but in only six girls. All boys with precocious puberty need detailed investigation; in girls investigation should be based on clinical findings, particularly the consonance of puberty.

Acoustic and musical components of consonance dissonance perception have been recently identified. This study expands the range predictors by three analytical operations. In Experiment 1, we identify underlying structure a number central extracted from an extensive dataset chords using hierarchical cluster analysis. Four feature categories are identified largely confirming existing (roughness, ...

•Correspondence: Richard Parncutt, Centre for Systematic Musicology, A-8010, Graz, Austria; tel: +43 316 380-8161, e-mail: [email protected] • Action Editor: Renee Timmers • Received: 20 July 2011; Revised: 23 November 2011; Accepted: 24 November 2011 • Available online: 20 March 2012 • doi: 10.4407/jims.2011.11.002 Consonance and dissonance in music theory and psychology: Disentangling diss...