A recent mix-up in studies on brain tissue of animals has set back Britain's efforts to determine human exposure to the BSE agent through contaminated meat products. Nigel Williams reports.

A recent meeting highlighted how much Darwinian thinking on natural selection illuminates the background to some major current human diseases and may offer insight into many more. Nigel Williams reports on a field seeking a place in mainstream medical education.

Unprecedented access to the archives of Francis Crick, just before the 50th anniversary next year of his famous paper co-authored with James Watson on the proposed double helix structure of DNA, looks set to go ahead. Nigel Williams reports.

Salience and satisfaction are important factors in determining the comparisons that people make. We hypothesized that people make salient comparisons first, and then make satisfying comparisons only if salient comparisons leave them unsatisfied. This hypothesis suggests an asymmetry between winning and losing. For winners, comparison with a salient alternative (i.e., losing) brings satisfaction...

Viewing desperate love as marked by urgency, neediness, dependence, a great need for reciprocation, indealization, and affective extremes, personality traits leading to desperate love were examined. A sample of 251 undergraduates, in desperate love, nondesperate love, and random groups, completed several questionnaires examining characteristic qualities of self and important others and attitude...

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