The success of horror films, popularity true crime, and prevalence violence in the news implies that morbid curiosity is a common psychological trait. However, research on largely absent from literature. In this paper, I present psychometric tool for assessing curiosity, defined as motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena, use it investigate nature curiosity. studies 1 2 (nt...

Introduction This study evaluated socioeconomic inequality in morbid obesity (body mass index, BMI ≥40 kg/m2) through an analysis of population health survey data in the United States (US) and England (UK). Methods We analysed data for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the Health Survey for England for 2011 to 2014. Age-adjusted odds ratios (AOR) were used to evaluate i...

Individuals diagnosed with morbid jealousy have hypersensitive jealousy mechanisms that cause them to have irrational thoughts about their partner's fidelity and to exhibit extreme behaviors. Using a newly constructed database of 398 cases of morbid jealousy reported in the literature from 1940 to 2002, we tested four evolutionarily informed hypotheses about normally functioning jealousy mechan...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with aggression in the traumatic brain injury population. The focus of the study was to evaluate the (a) frequency and severity of aggressive behaviours in outpatients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), (b) ecological validity of the Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory (RNBI) Anger scale, and (c) comorbid and pre-morbid fa...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the effect of obesity on surgical outcomes in patients who underwent gynecologic surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, we evaluated 132 patients who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with or without salpingo-oophorectomy for benign gynecologic procedures at our tertiary referral gynaecology clinic. RESULTS The non-morbid obese group [body mass ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in different societies. Understanding factors leading to death following diagnosis of TB is important to predict prognosis in TB patients. The aim of this study was to identify common risk factors associated with death in patients with an in-hospital diagnosis of TB, in a city in Iran with the highest prevalence a...

BACKGROUND Unnecessary perioperative transfusions are likely to be related to increased morbidity and additional costs in cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the blood transfusion practice during and after adult cardiac surgery in a referral university hospital in Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a descriptive study, we collected data from 153 adult patients under...