BACKGROUND It is well established that there is anxiety-related variation between observers in the very earliest, pre-attentive stage of visual processing of images such as emotionally expressive faces, often leading to enhanced attention to threat in a variety of disorders and traits. Whether there is also variation in early-stage affective (i.e. valenced) responses resulting from such images,...

Objective: To investigate the effect of age on the degree of maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth and associated gingival display when the lips are at rest and during smiling among a group of Jordanian population. Methods: A total of 127 subjects (74 females and 53 males) were included in this study. Subjects had all natural anterior teeth present with no caries, restorations, extreme occlus...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine the effect of facial reanimation surgery on observer-graded attractiveness and negative facial perception of patients with facial paralysis. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled experiment. METHODS Ninety observers viewed images of paralyzed faces, smiling and in repose, before and after reanimation surgery, as well as normal comparison faces. Observers rated t...

Have you ever noticed that in watch advertisements the time is usually set at 10:10? The reasons and psychological effects of this default time setting are elusive. In Experiment 1, we hypothesized that watches showing a time setting resembling a smiling face (10:10) would enhance emotional valence and intention to buy compared to a neutral time setting (11:30), whereas a time setting resemblin...

I am Charline Musaniwabo. I was born in 1976. My parents were farmers. I lived with them up to April 1994. My life completely changed during the genocide, having been married forcibly and losing many of my family members. I was born into a family of nine children, four boys and five girls. Five siblings and both my parents died during the genocide. Four of us escaped. I did not get a chance to ...

We present a variance drift adjusted version of the Heston model which leads to a significant improvement of the market volatility surface fitting (compared to Heston). The numerical example we performed with recent market data shows a significant reduction of the average absolute calibration error 1 (calibration on 12 dates ranging from Sep. 19 to Oct. 17 2011 for the FOREX underlying EURUSD)....

ABSTRACT Myotherapy intervention in facial aesthetics aims to attenuate wrinkles and signs of aging. The relationship between accentuated muscle contraction during chewing, swallowing speaking the appearance has been suggested by speech-language pathology literature. This study aimed report effect electromyographic biofeedback associated with training swallowing, smiling patterns, speech therap...