MANILA, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos took an early lead over challenger Corazon Aquino yesterday in the official canvass by the National Assembly of last w eek’s presidential election. In a brief television appearance, Marcos pledged to "honor, w ithout reservations, the people's verdict at the polls and to ex tend our hand in conciliation to those w ho have co n ­ tested the election...

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompt...