In this investigation, we test whether temporal discounting is domain-specific (i.e., compared to other people, can an individual have a relatively high discount rate for one type of reward but a relatively low discount rate for another?), and we examine whether individual differences in the types of rewards one finds tempting explain domain-specificity in discount rates. Adults discounted dela...

College students ranked the interest value of 12 different gossip scenarios; likelihood of spreading the gossip; and the people to whom they would be most likely to tell the gossip, depending on whether the gossip was about male or female professors, relatives, friends, acquaintances, strangers, or a same-sex rival or a romantic partner. Damaging, negative news about rivals and positive news ab...

First of all, a brief introduction to development of novel is to be given. Then the meaning of Bildungsroman novel along with the origin and development of this literary sub-genre have to be examined. Various representative authors like Dickens, Goethe, Joyce, Mann, and Christoph Martin Wieland in addition to some female writers like Charlotte Bronte, Sylvia Plath are to be presented critically...

BACKGROUND Shortcomings in elderly care have been reported in many parts of the world, including Sweden. However, national guidelines for elderly care have been introduced in Sweden, which contain core values and local guarantees of dignity. These highlight the need for dignity and well-being, and organising the older person's daily life so that they perceive it as meaningful. Therefore, the ai...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between the severity of neurogenic bowel and health-related quality of life in persons with various degrees of spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS A total of 128 people with spinal cord injury. METHODS Two questionnaires were sent out by post. One included demographic characteristics and a neurogenic bowel dysfunction score to evaluate...