abstract background: labor pain is one of the most intense pains experienced by women. different factors including physiological, psychological, socio‑cultural, environmental, and personality‑related factors are relevant to perception of childbirth pain. the negative experience of pain causes mental, psychological problems and influences the relationship between the mother and infant. therefore...

Happy New Year! On behalf of the whole C&EN team, I would like to wish happiness, health, and prosperity all American Chemical Society members in 2021. hope that year has started off well for you. During most 2020, COVID-19 pandemic impacted way we work live. Although vaccinations are now available health-care workers, first responders, like, end is finally sight, still have some go, disruption...

It is presumed that happiness, and its associated positive emotions, signal to the individual that an adaptive problem has been solved, thus allowing her to shift attention to other concerns, perhaps those "higher" on the revised motivational hierarchy proposed by Kenrick et al (2010, this issue). In this commentary, we present a sampling of longitudinal and experimental evidence supporting two...

I am honored and excited to contribute this column. First, would like thank Francesca Vipiana for the invitation, happy share my personal experience as a female microwave professor at Alma Mater Studiorum—Università di Bologna, Italy, where started career student continued it until reached role of full in 2018.

Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) often experience significant anxiety. A promising approach to anxiety intervention has emerged from cognitive studies of attention bias to threat. To investigate the utility of this intervention in WS, this study examined attention bias to happy and angry faces in individuals with WS (N = 46). Results showed a significant difference in attention bias patt...