purpose : the objective of this study was to investigate the total antioxidant status (tas) and dna damage markers of serum and aqueous humor in patients with pseudoexfoliation (pex) syndrome. methods : twenty-seven cataract patients with pex and twenty-seven without pex syndrome were included in the study and groups were matched for age and gender. patients had no elevated intraocular pressure...

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Vol. XLVIII (April 2011), 393 –402 *Vanessa M. Patrick is Bauer Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (e-mail: vpatrick@ uh.edu). Henrik Hagtvedt is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (e-mail: hagtvedt@bc. edu). Both authors contributed equally to this research. The authors thank seminar ...

The first in aseries of articles on the philosophy of humour and laughter looks at attempts made to explain humour in terms of incongruity.

The size incongruity effect refers to an increase in response time when the physical size of the letters in which the name of an object is written conflicts with the actual size of the object named. The electrophysiological correlates of the size incongruity effect were investigated in 13 healthy individuals through event-related potentials in this study. Scalp event-related potential analysis ...

Laughing at oneself is considered a core component of the sense of humor in the theories of several authors. In McGhee's (1996) eight-step-training program of the sense of humor, laughing at oneself constitutes one of the most difficult levels. However, until now, only little empirical evidence on laughing at oneself exists. Using a multimethod approach, in the current study, 70 psychology stud...

The objective of this preliminary study was to examine the extent to which affective marital interaction related to depressive symptoms in persons with chronic pain and their spouses and to pain severity in persons with pain. Couples from the community completed self-report surveys and engaged in a videotaped conversation on a topic of mutual disagreement that was coded for three affect types (...

The purpose of this study was to reevaluate the multi-dimensional model of humor creation, which is comprised of three dimensions: humor motivation, humor cognition, and humor communication, using in vivo (natural setting) methodology. Thirty-four lecturers from colleges and universities completed a questionnaire. Additionally, 1530 students observed these lecturers and evaluated their sense of...

Humor can be expressed in many ways, some of which may not be seen as displaying a good sense of humor or as being socially desirable. Using the Humor Styles Questionnaire to predict global ratings of sense of humor for oneself and for a romantic partner indicated that only adaptive humor styles were reliably related to sense of humor and that an affiliative style was the primary predictor. Beh...

OBJECTIVE The provision of information appears to be an important feature of humor. The present studies examined whether humor serves as an interpersonal signal such that an individual's style of humor is associated with how the individual is perceived by others. METHOD We examined this issue across two studies. In Study 1, undergraduate participants (257 targets) were rated more positively b...