What qualities make a political leader more or less influential? Philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists have puzzled over this question, and have posited two opposing routes to political power—one driven by human virtues such as courage and wisdom, and the other by vices such as Machiavellianism and psychopathy. From the nonverbal coding of political speeches, we assessed the vir...

What qualities make a political leader more influential or less influential? Philosophers, political scientists, and psychologists have puzzled over this question, positing two opposing routes to political power--one driven by human virtues, such as courage and wisdom, and the other driven by vices, such as Machiavellianism and psychopathy. By coding nonverbal behaviors displayed in political s...

Many of the most significant choices that people make are between vices, which exchange small immediate rewards for large delayed costs, and virtues, which exchange small immediate costs for large delayed rewards. We investigate the consequences of making a series of such choices either simultaneously or sequentially. We made two predictions. First, because many alternatives chosen under simult...

munity based psychiatric services. There is no single view of CMHCs in the United Kingdom and, while many such centres already exist, they are diverse in nature and their activities have been sparsely documented. An issue often raised by proponents of these ser vices is whether to allow potential patients to by-pass the normal referral channels and present themselves directly to the service. Th...

Many of the most signi®cant choices that people make are between vices, which exchange small immediate rewards for large delayed costs, and virtues, which exchange small immediate costs for large delayed rewards. We investigate the consequences of making a series of such choices either simultaneously or sequentially. We made two predictions. First, because many alternatives chosen under simulta...