S 99 Over time, a population of rotifers had contaminated the Scenedesmus sp. cultures, triggering the production of multicelluar, spinous forms, a typical anti-predator strategy for this genus. It is then concluded that Scenedesmus sp. does exhibit phenotypic plasticity in response to biotic and abiotic changes in the surrounding environment. Additionally, some genetic variation was found in s...

Photo by Sam McGhee on Unsplash ABSTRACT Medical education has a long history of discriminatory practices. Because the hierarchy inherent in medical education, underrepresented-in-medicine (URiM) students are particularly vulnerable to discrimination and often feel they have limited recourse respond without repercussions. URiM student leaders at USA school needed their peers, faculty, administr...

One of the issues concerning the application of implicit measures like the IAT is whether they can be successfully applied to consumer choices. Four studies (N=399) tested the predictive and incremental validity of an IAT towards fruits versus snacks on the spontaneous choice of a fruit or a snack at the end of the experimental session. Specifically, additive and interactive patterns to predict...

Two experiments compared alternative minimal group induction procedures involving (a) memorization of novel in-group names or (b) random categorization to (c) the traditional procedure based on ostensibly meaningful but deception-based categorization. Experiment 1 revealed comparable in-group attitude and identification effects across the three procedures on explicit measures, but significantly...

In a 9 year longitudinal study over childhood, the Big Five personality traits were assessed at ages 4–6 by teacher Q-sorts, at age 10 by parental Q-sorts, and at age 12 by parental and friend ratings on bipolar adjective scales. The Big Five Q-sort indices were based on definitions proposed by John, Caspi, Robins, Moffitt, and Stouthamer-Loeber (1994) for adolescent boys. They were related to ...

Two experiments examined mere acceptance effects in the Implicit Association Test (IAT). They tested whether accepting a stimulus as conforming to a rule produces responding consistent with positive attitude in the IAT. In Experiment 1, accepted stimuli were more easily categorized with pleasant personality characteristics than rejected stimuli; they were preferred according to the logic of the...

The present paper tries to discover the position of sense of humor in personality space. Several definitions of humor are discussed and a review of studies relating personality and humor is given. The authors’ conceptualization of humor is introduced and two studies are presented that tried to locate these humor dimensions within personality space. Our humor tests were given to two samples: the...

129 words) This review of 103 studies (140 independent samples, 10,967 subjects), found average r=.27 for prediction of a wide collection of behavioral, judgment, and physiological measures by Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures. Parallel explicit (i.e., self-report) measures, available in 2/3 of these studies, also predicted effectively (96 samples, 7,018 subjects, average r=.33), but wer...

Research on the relationship between humour appreciation and needs was traditionally restricted to the investigation of the significance of humour content. The present study extends this scope by relating needs to appreciation of humour structure and to liking of humour in general. Instruments allowing a more comprehensive assessment of both needs and humour appreciation were administered to su...

Complete trypanosomatid life cycles have been studied for a handful of species, mainly those medical importance (i.e., Leishmania and Trypanosoma).The vast majority trypanosomatids infect insects the orders Diptera Hemiptera, although representatives at least three additional implicated as specific hosts.While monoxenous develop in insect intestinal tract, some them also live Malpighian tubules...