Although much research examines how physicians perceive their patients, here we study how patients perceive physicians. We propose patients consider their physicians like personally emotionless ‘‘empty vessels’’: The higher is individuals’ need for care, the less they value physicians’ traits related to their personal lives (e.g., self-focused emotions), but the more they value physicians’ trai...

A person's speech communicates his or her thoughts and feelings. We predicted that beyond conveying the contents of a person's mind, a person's speech also conveys mental capacity, such that hearing a person explain his or her beliefs makes the person seem more mentally capable-and therefore seem to possess more uniquely human mental traits-than reading the same content. We expected this effect...

this article deals with human development as a biosociopsychological phenomena with an emphasis on the theoretical outlooks of outstanding phenomenologists such as freud, erikson and piagent. first, life cycles, and then the interaction of human sensory systems with the external stimuli, and the information processing system involved are discussed, with a special emphasis on the relation betwee...

STUDY DESIGN  A retrospective cohort of 68 patients who underwent insertion of the DIAM (Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Switzerland) interspinous device (ISD) during 2006-2008 at one medical center. OBJECTIVES  To assess the short- and intermediate-term outcomes and complications associated with ISD. METHODS  Evaluation of files and all patients who underwent insertion of a DIAM ISD was performed...

In his chapter “Performative and Passionate Utterance” which appears in Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow, Stanley Cavell makes a claim for what he describes as the expressive or passional aspects of speech. This claim (plea might be a more appropriate term) is, in part, a response to what Cavell regards as a missed opportunity or failing in Austin’s theory of the performative utterance, an opp...