E-mail and instant messaging (IM) are essential ingredients of workplace communication. The study examines how the hedonic use of electronic communications influences work-life balance and cognitive absorption. Data collected from white-collar employees in the United States show that work-life balance mediates the relationship between personal e-mail and cognitive absorption, and that personal ...

Real hypersexuality is rare in demented subjects. Most inappropriate sexual behaviors are related to disinhibition or lack of taking into account contextual environment and feelings of others. Four dimensions should be taken into account for their analysis: research of intimacy, libido enhancement, disinhibition, and cognitive factors. An integrative model is proposed to adequately adapt their ...

Matthew W. Self and Pieter R. Roelfsema Department of Vision & Cognition, The Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Psychiatry Department, Academic Medical Cente...

Spas Getov, Ryota Kanai, Bahador Bahrami, and Geraint Rees Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square, London, UK, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Pevensey 1, Brighton, UK, Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University, and Cent...