abstract aim and background: theory of mind is the ability to attribute one’s own or others mental states which has an important role in social and behavioral performances. the purpose of the present study was compare theory of mind in patients with schizophrenia and major depression with normal individuals. methods and materials: the present research was a causal- comparative study. the subjec...

After committing to an action, a decision-maker can change their mind to revise the action. Such changes of mind can even occur when the stream of information that led to the action is curtailed at movement onset. This is explained by the time delays in sensory processing and motor planning which lead to a component at the end of the sensory stream that can only be processed after initiation. S...

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between...

Recently climate change issues have come to the forefront. Climate change is a global challenge. It is a threat to social and economic stability and sustainable human existence. There is no doubt that climate change affects the fundamental requirement for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient green food and secured shelter. Many measures have to be planned for and taken into accou...

The issues of climate change and environmental degradation elicit diverse responses. This paper explores how an understanding of humanmoral psychology might be used tomotivate conservation efforts.Moral concerns for the environment can relate to issues of harm (i.e., causing pain or impinging on another’s welfare) or impurity (i.e., engaging in sacrilegious, polluting, or disgusting actions). A...

This research paper explores how global society should address climate change, focusing on the Kyoto Protocol and its future. In the introduction, the paper presents three challenges that we face in addressing climate change; uncertainty, trade-off between environment and economy, and political conflict. The paper tries to work out how to address climate change with these three challenges in mi...

Across different domains the magnitude of a stimulus is positively correlated with its perceived duration: bigger, brighter or louder stimuli are usually perceived to last longer than smaller, dimmer or softer ones. According to A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM), temporal and nontemporal magnitudes are linked in the human mind by virtue of sharing a common metric. This claim has been challenged by s...

Population monitoring must robustly detect trends over time in a cost-effective manner. However, several underlying ecological changes driving population trends may interact differently with observation uncertainty to produce abundance trends that are more or less detectable for a given budget and over a given time period. Errors in detecting these trends include failing to detect declines when...