Driver Aggression as a Function of Status Concurrence: An Analysis of Horn-Honking Responses

Various field experiments were conducted to examine the influence of social status on aggression in road traffic. Horn-honking response times of subjects blocked by an experimental car at traffic lights were considered to be an indicator of the degree of aggression. During an initial experiment, the status of the frustrator was varied and an inverse relation was observed between status and aggression towards the frustrator. On the other hand, in a more recent experiment higher status aggressors were found to behave more aggressively. In our study we combined the two designs, i.e., we varied the status of the frustrator and at the same time measured the status of the aggressor. Neither results of the former experiments could be replicated, but we observed a reduction in aggression when frustrator and aggressor were of similar social status.

The specificity of emotion inferences as a function of emotional contextual support

Research on emotion inferences has shown that readers include a representation of the main character's emotional state in their mental representations of the text. We examined the specificity of emotion representations as a function of the emotion content of short narratives, in terms of the quantity and quality of emotion components included in the narratives, based on the GRID instrument (Fontaine et al., 2013). In a self-paced reading task, target sentences that only moderately matched the emotional context were read faster than target sentences that strongly matched the emotional context of the narratives. In a “makes sense” judgment task, we showed that this result was not driven by a mapping difficulty and, in a memory task, we provided some evidence that these effects reflected integration processes. We suggest that readers can integrate specific emotions into their mental representations, but only if provided with the appropriate emotional contextual support.

novel function of the endothelial thrombomodulin-protein C system for cellular function in the CNS

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften, Dissertation, 2016

Mass of particulate carbon and nitrogen in suspended matter as a function of volume filtered in several oceanic areas

We address two issues in the determination of particulate carbon and nitrogen in suspended matter of aquatic environments. One is the adsorption of dissolved organic matter on filters, leading to overestimate particulate matter. The second is the material loss during filtration due to fragile algal cells breaking up. Examples from both laboratory cultures and natural samples are presented. We recommend using stacked filters in order to estimate thefirst and filtering different volumes of water in order to evaluate the second.

Estimating costs for water treatment as a function of size and treatment efficiency /

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Spectral theory of operators in Hilbert space. [Lecture notes]

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Rings of operators.

"Prepared with the assistance of a grant from the Research Corporation."

Analysis and forecast of truck traffic loads and the relative damage to pavement systems as a function of axle configurations. Final report.

Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Transportation Planning Division, Austin

Driver's visibility requirements for roadway delineation. Vol. II: color identification of yellow highway paint as a function of yellow/white pigment mixture ratio. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Using an outflow meter to predict braking traction speed gradients as a function of surface tension. Technical report.

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The velocity of inversion of sucrose as a function of the thermodynamic concentration of hydrogen ion ...

Vita.

Psychology; an introductory study of the structure and function of human consciousness

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The structure and function of muscle.

Includes bibliography.

Psychology; an introductory study of the structure and function of human consciousness,

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