We introduce the rejection game, designed to formalize interaction between interlocutors in a Stalnakerian conversation: speaker who asserts something and listener may accept or reject. The game is similar other signalling games known literature economics biology. point out similarities differences, propose an application linguistics. uncover basic conditions under which Gricean maxim of qualit...

Predictions from the Rejection Sensitivity (RS) model concerning the social causes and consequences of RS were examined in a longitudinal study of 150 middle school students. Peer nominations of rejection, self-report measures of anxious and angry rejection expectations, and social anxiety, social withdrawal, and loneliness were assessed at two time points. Results indicate that peer rejection ...

Allograft dysfunction is a common problem after kidney transplant. Allograft rejection is an important entity, and timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential for caring transplant recipients. Hyperacute rejection is mediated by the preformed donor specific antibody, while accelerated acute rejection represents an anamnestic response by memory B and T cells. They occur early after ...

Acute rejection continues to present a major obstacle to successful lung transplantation. Although CD4(+) T lymphocytes are critical for the rejection of some solid organ grafts, the role of CD4(+) T cells in the rejection of lung allografts is largely unknown. In this study, we demonstrate in a novel model of orthotopic vascularized mouse lung transplantation that acute rejection of lung allog...

People who are sensitive to social rejection tend to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to it. This article shows that this cognitive-affective processing disposition undermines intimate relationships. Study 1 describes a measure that operationalizes the anxious-expectations component of rejection sensitivity. Study 2 provides experimental evidence that people who anxiously expec...

BACKGROUND Heart transplant rejection originates slow and fragmented conduction. Signal-averaged ECG (SAECG) is a stratification method in the risk of rejection. OBJECTIVE To develop a risk score for rejection, using SAECG variables. METHODS We studied 28 transplant patients. First, we divided the sample into two groups based on the occurrence of acute rejection (5 with rejection and 23 wit...