This study examined how personality impressions about another person are influenced by the style of humor that person displays. Four distinct styles were examined, with two of these being adaptive (affiliative and self-enhancing humor), and two being maladaptive (aggressive and self-defeating humor). Participants read descriptions of an individual displaying each humor style, and then rated tha...

about electronic signatures there are more or less some writings concerning their legal aspect. but in those writings there has been a little attention to credibility and evidential value of the electronic signatures. some questions and ambiguities despite being set before has not been answered at all or answered unsatisfactorily. meanwhile, some authors have made mistakes and some have set tri...

OBJECTIVE To determine if smokers and non-smokers cluster into meaningful, discrete subgroups with distinguishable attitudes and behaviours regarding smoking and smoking restrictions. DESIGN Qualitative research with 45 smokers guided development of questionnaire items applied in a population based telephone survey of 432 current smokers and 1332 non-smokers in Ontario, Canada. METHODS Clus...

Standard equilibrium concepts in game theory find it diffi cult to explain the empirical evidence in a large number of static games such as prisoners’ dilemma, voting, public goods, oligopoly, etc. Under uncertainty about what others will do in one-shot games of complete and incomplete information, evidence suggests that people often use evidential reasoning (ER), i.e., they assign diagnostic s...

6 During the 20th century, population ecology and science in general relied on two very 7 different statistical paradigms to solve its inferential problems: error statistics (also 8 referred to as classical statistics and frequentist statistics) and Bayesian statistics. A great 9 deal of good science was done using these tools, but both schools suffer from technical 10 and philosophical difficu...

BACKGROUND Smoking remains one of the most pressing public health problems in the United States and internationally. The concurrent evolution of the Internet, social network science, and online communities offers a potential target for high-yield interventions capable of shifting population-level smoking rates and substantially improving public health. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to convene l...

Non-conscious visual processing of different object categories was investigated in a rare patient with bilateral destruction of the visual cortex (V1) and clinical blindness over the entire visual field. Images of biological and non-biological object categories were presented consisting of human bodies, faces, butterflies, cars, and scrambles. Behaviorally, only the body shape induced higher pe...