The current study was designed to examine the relation between cognitive associative networks, perceptions of vulnerability to unplanned pregnancy, and erotophobia. Two issues were addressed. The first was whether negative emotional orientation toward sexuality (i.e., erotophobia) is related to cognitive associations between sexual words and words with positive vs negative connotations (e.g., v...

This paper briefly and informally surveys different theoretical models of relative concerns and their relation to inequality. Models of inequity aversion in common use in experimental economics imply a negative relation between inequality and happiness. In contrast, empirical studies on happiness typically employ models of relative concerns that assume that increases in others’ income always ha...

Taking the standard zero curvature approach we derive an infinite set of inte-grable equations, which taken together form the negative Volterra hierarchy. The resulting equations turn out to be nonlocal, which is usual for the negative flows. However, in some cases the nonlocality can be eliminated. Studying the combined action of both positive (classical) and negative Volterra flows, i.e. cons...

The transitive closure of a reflexive, symmetric, analytic relation is an analytic equivalence relation. Does some smaller class contain the transitive closure of every reflexive, symmetric, closed relation? An essentially negative answer is provided here. Every analytic equivalence relation on an arbitrary Polish space is Borel embeddable in the transitive closure of the union of two smooth Bo...

Burnout was tested for in 754 mental health workers and related to self-image as assessed with Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB, Benjamin 1974). A positive relation was found between burnout and negative self-image, and between the experience of personal accomplishment and positive self-image. Compared to self-image, gender, age and work setting did not explain any variance in burno...