Title of Document: BRIDGING THE ATTACHMENT TRANSMISSION GAP WITH MATERNAL MIND-MINDEDNESS AND INFANT TEMPERAMENT Laura Jernigan Sherman, Master of Science, 2009 Directed By: Professor Jude Cassidy, Psychology The goal of this study was to test (a) whether maternal mind-mindedness (MM) mediates the link between maternal attachment (from the Adult Attachment Interview) and infant attachment (in t...

After years of neglect, Piccione and Rubinstein (1997a) re-examined the problem of imperfect recall and its implications for game theory. They introduced the notion of absent-mindedness through a decision-making problem called the absentminded driver's paradox. This simple game precipitated a vigorous discussion with different researchers having strong opinions about whether the paradox actuall...

T his issue brings the 14th in the ‘‘Heroes and Martyrs of Quality and Safety’’ series. More are to come. With a new editor of this journal on board, it is a good moment to define the content of the series. It is about people—present and past—who have found an opportunity to improve health, their efforts to carry out the needed improvements and to measure the results. These people are patient c...

AbsTRAcT Drawing on Holland's (1985, 1996) vocational theory and based on a sample of 9,011 IT professionals, two research questions were investigated. On what personality traits do IT professionals differ from other occupations and which of these are also related to their career satisfaction? Five traits met both these criteria—Emotional Resilience, Openness, Tough-Mindedness, and Customer Ser...

Abstract Calls for civility feature prominently in public discourse, and the concept has received growing attention by political philosophers recently. But what does it mean to be civil? The existing literature distinguishes between two main understandings of civility: as politeness public-mindedness. objective this article is show that these conceptions different normative claims associated wi...