This study examined the influence of situational power on automatic racial prejudice. White females anticipated participating in either an interracial or same-race interaction in one of two roles: superior or subordinate. Their racial attitudes were measured via the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). Results revealed that both the racial composition of the anticipa...

A new application of the biovolume abundance index is proposed for relative diversity demography in paleoecological analyses. Use of this technique will improve confidence in data validity and solve the following inadequacies of other numerical census techniques: all groups are treated equally, samples from different lithologies can be meaningfully compared, colonial and solitary organisms are ...

Terrains in our everyday environment such as homes and offices are custom-designed for biped walkers i.e., human beings. Evolution of humanoid robots was, thus, a natural development in the field of mobile robotics. However, giving legs to a robot instead of wheels gives it a lot more than just resemblance to a human being. Unlike ordinary mobile robots, humanoids have the ability to cross obst...

Previous research suggests that automatically activated bias manifests itself in behavior that can jeopardize the quality of intergroup interactions. However, regulation of automatic associations has the potential to attenuate their influence on intergroup interaction. To test this possibility, 46 non-Muslim White participants interacted with a Muslim confederate and completed an implicit measu...

Abdullah AS, Ho LM, Kwan YH, Cheung WL, McGhee SM, Chan WH (2006): Promoting smoking cessation among the elderly: what are the predictors of intention to quit and successful quitting? J Aging Health 18(4): 552–564. Abdullah AS, Lam TH, Chan SK, Leung GM, Chi I, Ho WW, Chan SS (2008): Effectiveness of a mobile smoking cessation service in reaching elderly smokers and predictors of quitting. BMC ...

Elicited imitation (EI) is an oral language testing method that has been experimented with since the 1960s. Its first uses were focused on assessing first language acquisition in children (Ervin-Tripp, 2001) and diagnosing language abnormalities (Berry, 1976; Lahey, Launer, & Schiff-Myers, 1983). Later, in the 1970s, researchers began to assess how useful the method would be within the field of...

Background: A primary focus of self-care interventions for chronic illness is the encouragement of an individual's behavior change necessitating knowledge sharing, education, and understanding of the condition. The use of the Internet to deliver Web-based interventions to patients is increasing rapidly. In a 7-year period (1996 to 2003), there was a 12-fold increase in MEDLINE citations for “We...

Narcissism is a personality trait associated with an inflated, grandiose self-concept and a lack of intimacy in interpersonal relationships. A popular assumption is that narcissists’ positive explicit (conscious) self-views mask implicit (nonconscious) self-loathing. This belief is typically traced to psychodynamic theory, especially that of Kohut (1966; Morrison, 1983). Empirically, this view ...

Pentacam Keratometric Values Unreliable for IOL Power Calculation After Refractive Surgery To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Gonen et al,1 which appeared in the August 2012 issue of the Journal of Refractive Surgery, on their study comparing keratometric data from 200 patients evaluated for refractive surgery using four different devices—an automated keratometer (KR 8800 [Topc...

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