Abstract The pressure dependence of the exchange Cr between clinopyroxene and garnet in peridotite is applicable as a geobarometer for mantle-derived Cr-diopside xenocrysts xenoliths. most widely used calibration (Nimis Taylor Contrib Miner Petrol 139: 541–554, 2000; herein NT00) performs well at pressures below 4.5 GPa, but has been shown to consistently underestimate above GPa. We have experi...

For the past two decades the person-situation debate has dominated personality psychology and had important repercussions in clinical, social, and organizational psychology. This controversy strikes to the heart of each of these disciplines because it puts on trial the central assumption that internal dispositions have an important influence on behavior. According to emerging views of scientifi...

During the last half of the twentieth century, psychologists and anthropologists have studied proxemics, or spacing behavior, among people in many contexts. As we enter the twenty-first century, immersive virtual environment technology promises new experimental venues in which researchers can study proxemics. Immersive virtual environments provide realistic and compelling experimental settings ...

Previous studies document that attractiveness predicts life outcomes, including well-being and social connectedness. This study investigates whether the attractiveness–outcomes link is especially strong in settings, such as many urban areas, that promote relationship constructions as a product of personal choice. This link may weaken in settings, such as many rural areas, that promote less volu...

In the last decade, the multimodal aspects of communication have become an emerging field of research. Much work has been done on single systems of communication different from the verbal one gestures, facial expression, gaze, body movements (see for example Kendon, 1993; Ekman and Friesen, 1978; Argyle and Cook, 1976; Birdwhistell, 1970) and on the relationship among acoustic and visual modali...

As they move into and through the retirement years women’s advantage over men in happiness is reversed. Although the happiness of both sexes is affected similarly by retirement from work, marital disruption, and changes in income and health, the difference between men and women in the life cycle occurrence of retirement and widowhood results in different trends in happiness. Men who survive to ...

A sample of 10,851 pupils (5,493 males and 5,358 females) attending year-nine classes (13to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9,494 pupils (4,787 males and 4,707 females) attending yearten classes (14to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief, alo...

Every day, millions of users interact in real-time via avatars in online environments, such as massively-multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These online environments could potentially be unique research platforms for the social sciences and clinical therapy, but it is crucial to first establish that social behavior and norms in virtual environments are comparable to those in the p...

Two hundred and twenty adult participants completed postal questionnaires to assess the frequency and location of their use of 16 different Internet services. They also completed a battery of scales covering various trait and cognitive aspects of personality. Internet use was wide spread and diverse. The relative popularities and frequencies of use of the different services were established, an...

In 1929 the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children moved from a cramped Victorian building in the city centre to a new hospital on a greenfield site in the suburbs, constructed in the then fashionable pavilion style with tiny wards whose glass fronted verandas entrained draughts more often than they caught the sun. Linked by endless corridors, these wards which were 'lightly built to last fo...