Infants aren't biased toward fearful faces.

Grossmann's argument for the "fearful ape hypothesis" rests on an incomplete review of infant responses to emotional faces. An alternate interpretation of the literature argues the opposite, that an early preference for happy faces predicts cooperative learning. Questions remain as to whether infants can interpret affect from faces, limiting the conclusion that any "fear bias" means the infant is fearful.

Valence, arousal, and dominance ratings for facial stimuli.

A total of 1,363 images from seven sets of facial stimuli were normed using the self-assessment manikin procedure. Each participant provided valence, arousal, and dominance ratings for 120-130 faces displaying various emotional expressions (e.g.

Attentional capture for emotional words and images: The importance of valence and arousal.

Categorical negativity theory suggests that valence guides attention; whereas the arousal hypothesis suggests that arousal modulates attention. The current study examined the manner in which both valence and arousal influence the attentional capture of emotional words and images using a dot-probe task. The results revealed the standard congruency effect for negative words, but not positive words, consistent with categorical negativity theory.

Retrospective Basic Parent-Child Communication Difficulties and Risk of Depression in Deaf Adults.

This paper describes the relationship between retrospective communication difficulties and current depressive symptomatology. A total of 143 deaf/hard-of-hearing late adolescents and adults (64 % White; 55 % female) completed questionnaires related to parent communication, language history and current psychological functioning. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the likelihood of having depression that is associated with understanding parents' communication after controlling for gender, hearing level, and language history.

Finding the positive in all of the negative: Facilitation for color-related emotion words in a negative priming paradigm.

A study conducted by Sutton and Altarriba (2008) suggested that color-related emotion words (e.g., sad, envy) produce standard Stroop interference effects.

Color associations to emotion and emotion-laden words: A collection of norms for stimulus construction and selection.

Color has the ability to influence a variety of human behaviors, such as object recognition, the identification of facial expressions, and the ability to categorize stimuli as positive or negative. Researchers have started to examine the relationship between emotional words and colors, and the findings have revealed that brightness is often associated with positive emotional words and darkness with negative emotional words (e.g.

Efficacy of imiquimod cream, 5%, for lentigo maligna after complete excision: a study of 43 patients.

Objective: To determine the efficacy of imiquimod cream, 5%, in the treatment of lentigo maligna (LM).

Design: Open-label before-and-after interventional study.

Setting: A multidisciplinary melanoma clinic at a major tertiary hospital.

Allergic contact dermatitis to sodium benzoate chloroacetamide in a sorbolene lotion.

Sodium benzoate chloroacetamide is sometimes used as a combination preservative in cosmetics to prevent the growth of bacteria, mould, fungi and yeasts. A case of occupational allergic contact dermatitis to this preservative is described in a 32-year-old female personal care assistant, who was found to have allergic contact dermatitis involving the hands, caused by the sorbolene lotion supplied in her workplace. Patch testing to chloroacetamide, sodium benzoate chloroacetamide and the sorbolene lotion was positive.

A 10-year prospective study of patients with skin cancer.

Background And Objective: To determine the incidence of new skin cancer formation in people who have had a nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) removed.

Methods: A prospective study of Australian outpatients with histologically confirmed nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).

Results: Four hundred eighty-one patients were entered in the study and 300 were followed for at least 10 years.