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Is Affective Priming Possible?
Get PDFIntroduction: This study is a replication of Murphy and Zajonc (1993), Jenner (2000), and Chalmers (2000) in order to test the affective priming hypothesis.Method: University of Edinburgh students were shown short exposures of faces showing emotional expressions (affective primes) ranging from 12.5 ms to 44 ms. This was followed by a mask and then a neutral face which they were asked to rate for likeability on a scale from 1 to 5. Their recognition of the emotional face was tested by a separate experiment at each exposure time.Results: No affective priming effect was found either when there was no recognition of the affective prime above chance or when recognition was significantly above chance. However, the results do suggest that recognition of the polarity of emotion shown occurs before the recognition of the specific emotion.Conclusion: This study does not support Murphy and Zajonc’s (1993) affective priming hypothesis. The findings do suggest that the primary recognition of faces may be towards a positive/negative judgement with the identification of the specific emotion shown occurring later
Lessons from Medical History - Occupational and Environmental Diseases
Get PDFTwo sorry stories. In about 1990, two middle aged men died in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from a fibrotic lung disease. I was asked to see the second of these men in his terminal illness and found that both had been working as stonemasons on Elgin cathedral, employed by Historic Buildings, Scotland. A visit to the workplace showed that they and their colleagues had been and were being exposed to very high concentrations of fin e quartz dust from the use of powered tools on sandstone. There was no local exhaust ventilation to extract dust and the respirators provided were inadequate. Post mortem studies showed the two men to have died from acute silicosis, a condition not described in modern times in Britain. Fortunately, it was possible to prevent further serious illness in the remaining masons by appropriate action
Diagnostic Problem
Get PDFSubject: A.L., 40, male.Presentation:1. abdominal distension for a week prior to admission2. vague peri-umbilical pain: constant, radiating to back and groins, not relieved by antacids or warmth3. nausea and vomiting of coffee-grounds material, followed by bright red blood, on evening prior to admissio
The Contributors
Get PDFProfessor Ronald Girdwood,Dr. George Ashcroft, Dr. W. R. M. Alexander,David McLeod and John Wallwork
The Most Important Nut
Get PDFA dissertation read before the Society on Friday. 10th November, 1967.A motorist once asked a motor mechanic what he thought was the most important nut on a motor vehicle and though there is no direct answer to such a question the one given by the mechanic not only put the driver in his place but also summed up the whole problem of Road Accident Prevention.COSTEvery twelve months, on the roads of Great Britain alone, nearly 8,000 people are killed and 350,000 injured, 90,000 of them seriously so*. This in itself is bad enough, but analysis of these figures by age and sex (Figure 1) makes the picture even worse. It can be seen that the greatest proportion of deaths and injuries are to young males between the ages of sixteen and thirty: the people that the country can least afford to lose whether human or economic factors are considered
Assessment of the Psychological State
Get PDFA psychiatric examination consists of four parts:1. The psychiatric history2. Examination of the Mental State3. Evaluation of the personality4. The diagnostic formulationThe clinical method for history-taking is the interview. The clinician sets out to obtain a comprehensive history in his first interview with the patient. A series of interviews may be necessary before he acquires all the information he needs to understand both how the psychiatric illness came about and why it took the course it did. In his first interview the goal of the clinician is to get at least a preliminary overall history; in doing so, he will also detect the prominent signs or illness comprising the mental state; moreover, he will have the information enabling him to reach a tentative assessment of the patient’s personality; and he will be able to arrive at a working diagnosis. A diagnosis is an hypothesis about the illness; and about the main aetiological factors operating. It is derived by the clinician from an informed synthesis of the facts elicited. Because diagnosis antecedes therapy, and the clinician will wish to begin the initial treatment after his first interview, he aims to reach his preliminary diagnosis where possible. A first interview takes an experienced practitioner half-an-hour. Subsequent interviews may be briefer, and can be arranged as required to get further information and to extend the psychiatric examination as necessary
Student research
Get PDFCLOSTRIDIUM OEDEMATIENSN.H.S. WIGSVASCULAR DISEASESGOT LEVELS IN TUBERCULOUS PATIENTS TREATED WITH PAS AND ISONIAZI
The Contributors
Get PDFDr Henry Walton, Dr John Clark, Dr John Dawson, Malcolm Macnicol and Gordon Leitc
Editorial
Get PDFThere has been a heartening increase of discussion recently in medical and other literature, about the “side-effects” of industrial and medical progress and expansion — namely pollution and over-population. It is particularly good to see the medical profession ruminate a little less, and start to call for and take action over the population problem.Most people, including the Government, tend to feel over-population is a problem mainly confined to the “underdeveloped” countries. It is certainly true that from sheer weight of numbers their problem is that much greater: also, because 40-45%, of their population are under 15 years, their populations will continue to rise for some forty years after the fertility level has fallen to the replacement level. But Britain must nonetheless do her share towards population stability, not only for the world ’s sake but also for her own. We, the U.K., are the eighth most densely populated country; England and Wales alone would be second only to Formosa; and currently births are exceeding deaths by 300,000 every year
The Drife Diaries
Get PDFAs readers will be aware, Teviot Row is alive with rumours that an ex-Edinburgh medical student is threatening to publish the diaries he kept during his undergraduate days in the "Swinging Sixties". His former colleagues, now distinguished medical men, are said to have offered large sums as "hush money" to "Doctor X", and several Edinburgh Publishing Houses have experienced burglaries and arson attacks, as well as telephone calls hinting at complications should the publisher ever need medical treatment. Undaunted, in what must be journalism\u27s coup of the decade, Res Medica has secured exclusive rights to these manuscripts, and after consultation with our lawyers (who advise us that their authorship must remain a closely guarded secret) we now present the second instalment of the first extracts from The Drife Diaries