Attraction at first fright? What Datton & Aron really demonstrated almost 40 years ago

Almost four decades have passed since Dutton and Aron (1974) published their classic article in JPSP in which they present the results of three studies. According to interpretations of the results done by the authors, the suffi cient condition of obtaining the effect of increased sexual attraction toward the object (an attractive woman) - which must be present shortly after or while waiting to become an aversive stimulus - is the induction in the subjects of a strong autonomic arousal. This can be done via crossing a high suspended bridge or anticipating the receipt of strong electric shocks. However, the results of reanalysis do not allow such a conclusion. In the article the author presents the results of secondary analysis and lists methodological, theoretical and interpretative incoherences.

NOTE ON JACKSON AND BERNSTE N TYPE APPROXIMATION THEOREMS IN THE CASE OF APPROXIMATION BY ALGEBRAIC POLYNOMIALS N THE SPACES L AND C

We con ider the best approximation E (n,f)by algebraic polynomials of degree at most n for function f in L 1 (-1, 1)or C [-1, 1]and give imple necessary and u .cient condition for E (n,f)=O (n-.),n ›.,u ing the well-known results in the ca e of ap- proximation of periodic function by trigonometric polynomials.

Effect of Rotation on Thermal Instability in Rivlin-Ericksen Elastico-Viscous Fluid

The thermal instability of a layer of Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluid acted on by a uniform rotation is considered. For stationary convection, a Rivlin-Ericksen elastico-viscous fluid behaves like a Newtonian fluid. It is found that rotation has a stabilizing effect and introduces oscillatory modes in the system. The visco-elasticity also introduces oscillatory modes in the system. A suffi-cient condition for the non-existence of overstability is also obtained.