I suppose that every teacher of elementary genetics has at one time or another encountered the b lief that in the absence of counteracting factors there should be three times as many dominant as recessive phenotypes in the population. It was this statement that induced G. H. HARDY in 1908 to write his famous paper. He started out somewhat apologetically, saying: “I am reluctant to intrude in a ...

We propose a new approach for examining self-related aspects and phenomena. The approach includes (1) a taxonomy and (2) an emphasis on multiple levels of mechanisms. The taxonomy categorizes approximately eighty self-related phenomena according to three primary functions involving the self: representing, effecting, and changing. The representing self encompasses the ways in which people depict...