Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements: Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?
Author: Baumeister, Roy F Vohs, Kathleen D Funder, David C Abstract: Psychology calls itself the science of behavior, and the American Psychological Association's current "Decade of Behavior" was intended to increase awareness and appreciation of this aspect of the...
The Associations Between Life Satisfaction and Health-related Quality of Life, Chronic Illness, and Health Behaviors among U.S. Community-dwelling Adults
Author(s): Strine, Tara W. Chapman, Daniel P. Balluz, Lina S. Moriarty, David G. Mokdad, Ali H. Abstract: The primary purpose of this article was to examine the associations between life satisfaction level and health-related quality of life (HRQOL), chronic illness,...
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
Author(s): Puckette, Miller Abstract: The selection of genes that discriminate disease classes from microarray data is widely used for the identification of diagnostic biomarkers. Although various gene selection methods are currently available and some of them have...
To Track or Not to Track: User Reactions to Concepts in Longitudinal Health Monitoring
Author(s): Jennifer S Beaudin Stephen S IntilleMargaret E Morris Abstract: Background: Advances in ubiquitous computing, smart homes, and sensor technologies enable novel, longitudinal health monitoring applications in the home. Many home monitoring technologies have...
Blog-Based Research Notebook: Personal Informatics Workbench for High-Throughput Experimentation
Author(s): Shin-ichi TodorokiTomoya Konishi SatoruInoue Abstract: In this age of information technology, many researchers are still conservative in keeping a log of their activities in paper-based notebooks. This style of log-keeping brings about the situation that...
Think Positively and Feel Positively: Optimism and Life Satisfaction in Late Life
Author(s): Leung, Beeto Wai-ChungMoneta, Giovanni B.McBride-Chang, Catherine Abstract: This study developed a dispositional path model of life satisfaction for community dwelling Chinese elderly living in Hong Kong. A sample of 117 elderly completed scales measuring...
Quantifying self-organization in cyclic cellular automata
Author(s): Shalizi, Cosma R.Shalizi, Kristina Lisa Abstract: Cyclic cellular automata (CCA) are models of excitable media. Started from random initial conditions, they produce several different kinds of spatial structure, depending on their control parameters. We...
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life
Author: Peterson, Christopher Park, Nansook Seligman, Martin E. P. Abstract: Different orientations to happiness and their association with life satisfaction were investigated with 845 adults responding to Internet surveys. We measured life satisfaction and the...
The surveillant assemblage
Author(s) Kevin D. Haggerty Richard V. Ericson Abstract: George Orwell's 'Big Brother' and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon' have domi-nated discussion of contemporar y developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to important attributes of...
Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: Cross-sectional results of the sleep heart health study
Author(s): Yaggi, HenryMohsenin, Vahid Abstract: Disordered breathing during sleep is associated with acute, unfavorable effects on cardiovascular physiology, but few studies have examined its postulated association with cardiovascular disease (CVD). We examined the...