Using the interpersonal perspective, we examined social correlates of dispositional optimism. In Study 1, optimism and pessimism were associated with warm-dominant and hostile-submissive interpersonal styles, respectively, across four samples, and had expected associations with social support and interpersonal stressors. In 300 married couples, Study 2 replicated these findings regarding interp...

To investigate unobtrusively how individuals experience sexual bondage, we analyzed all messages about sexual bondage (N = 514) mailed to an international computerized discussion group on sexual bondage in 1990. The most frequent individual experience reported (n = 60) was playful use of bondage to explore new areas of sexual pleasure. Other frequent experiences were the exchange of power, inte...

The authors examined whether variations in day-to-day estimates of personality characteristics, which are often treated as error, are instead predictable and meaningful. Using event-sampling and spectral analysis, they found that variations in interpersonal behavior over weekly periods were cyclic and normative. Dominant, submissive, agreeable, and quarrelsome behaviors rose during the week and...

Hardware impairments in physical transceivers are acknowledged to have a lethal consequence on communication systems; Even though very scarce contributions have examined their influence on relaying. This paper gives a review one numerating effect in a two way amplify-and-forward (AF) configuration of transceiver impairments. More precisely the real signal to noise and distortion ratios at both ...

This work investigated crosslinguistic perception of Mandarin utterances conveying six classes of attitudes, i.e., dominant/ submissive, friendly/hostile, polite/rude, serious/joking, praising/blaming, and sincere/insincere. Five groups of subjects were tested: native Mandarin speakers, Japanese L2 learners of Mandarin, French L2 learners of Mandarin, naïve Japanese without Mandarin ability, an...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of paranoia have assessed only limited numbers of paranoid thoughts, and have not considered the experience from a multidimensional perspective or examined the relationship between different suspicious thoughts. AIMS To assess a wide range of paranoid thoughts multidimensionally and examine their distribution, to identify the associated coping strategies and to exa...

OBJECTIVES We assessed severely and persistently depressed patients' interpersonal self-efficacy, problems, and goals, plus changes in interpersonal functioning and depression during 20 weeks of group therapy. METHOD Outpatients (32 female, 26 male, mean age = 45 years) completed interpersonal circumplex measures of goals, efficacy, and problems before completing 20 weeks of manualized group ...

The author suggests that the following seemingly disparate phenomena have an underlying relationship: cross-language similarities in the intonation contours for statements versus questions, cross-cultural similarities in the vocal expression via intonation of attitude and affect, cross-language patterns in the use of tone, vowels, and consonants in "sound symbolic' vocabulary , cross-species us...

This article explores a number of chat rooms devoted to cybersex. Case studies have been utilized to relate the intricacies of image management used by the chatters in an effort to balance the often times paradoxical circumstances in which they find themselves. The article includes an area of sexuality that many may find difficult to imagine translating to a cyber activity—that of bondage, disc...

The longstanding occupation, military operations, and siege have left their imprint on all aspects of life in Gaza including the family as core unit society. This article analyses impact Israeli practices structure Palestinian found Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers Gaza, Palestine. More specifically, paper argues that although various forms aggression harsh humanitarian conditions ...