Scheff's argument (2001), whereby shame and the breakdown of social ties are causality implicated in depression, has potential to inform quantitative research on depression, particularly research focused on determinants of personality vulnerability. In the present article, I relate Scheff's argument to more than two and a half decades of theory and research on the interpersonal nature of depres...

INTENTIONAL ACTIVITIES TO BOOST POSITIVE EMOTIONS Positive emotion remains a core topic within positive psychology (Fredrickson, 2001, 2013). Itself a marker of the optimal well-being, positive emotion not only undoes negative emotions, but also broadens positive thinking and activities, builds invaluable resources and relationships, and therefore ultimately promotes further positive emotions (...

Paul B. Baltes and his colleagues, who are among the most prominent contemporary wisdom researchers, define wisdom as ‘expert knowledge in the domain fundamental pragmatics of life.’ By contrast, this article argues that the definition, operationalization, and measurement of wisdom should not be reduced to expertise and that the term wisdom should be reserved for wise persons rather than expert...

I. The Pharmacology of No. 48-80, a Long-Acting Vasodepressor Drug. Peter B. Dews, A. Lloyd Wnuck, R. V. Fanelli, Amos E. Light, John A. Tornaben, Stata Norton, C. H. Ellis and Edwin J. De Beer 1 II. Studies on the Relationship of Metabolic Fate and Hormonal Effects of d,l-Methadone to the Development of Drug Tolerance. Chen-Y#{252} Sung, E. Leong Way and Kenneth G. Scott 12 III. The Action of ...

Although it is one of the central concepts of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT), unconditional self-acceptance has not been sufficiently empirically examined, especially not experimentally. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the effects of unconditional self-acceptance on mental health indicators in an egoprovoking experimental situation. For a sample of 182 students, we s...

Despite its rising prominence in the academic literature, the underlying inputs, processes and outputs of mental toughness remain relatively unexplored (Hardy, Bell, & Beattie, 2014). As such, the purpose of the study is to present a systems-approach model of mental toughness that classifies attributes of mental toughness within the aggregated system of inputs, processes and outputs. To this en...

Actinomycosis in the human being is a chronic, suppurative disease resulting from infection with the fungus Actinomyces bovis. Prior to the advent of the sulfonamides and later penicillin and streptomycin, the prognosis of patients suffering from actinomycotic infections was not too promising. There are many reports in the literature concerning the succesful use of penicillin as a chemotherapeu...

I. The Pharmacology of No. 48-80, a Long-Acting Vasodepressor Drug. Peter B. Dews, A. Lloyd Wnuck, R. V. Fanelli, Amos E. Light, John A. Tornaben, Stata Norton, C. H. Ellis and Edwin J. De Beer 1 II. Studies on the Relationship of Metabolic Fate and Hormonal Effects of d,l-Methadone to the Development of Drug Tolerance. Chen-Y#{252} Sung, E. Leong Way and Kenneth G. Scott 12 III. The Action of ...

To evaluate Litman and Jimerson's (2004) Interest/Deprivation (I/D) model of curiosity, 355 students (269 women, 86 men) responded to 6 trait curiosity measures including the Curiosity/Interest in the World scale (C/IW; Peterson & Seligman, 2004), the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory (CEI; Kashdan, Rose, & Fincham, 2004), the Perceptual Curiosity scale (PC; Collins, Litman, & Spielberger, 20...