Predictors and memory consequences of dating decisions in a dating app-analogue study.

With the rise of dating apps, people have access to a vast pool of potential partners at their fingertips. The present study examined how various factors would predict an individual's dating decisions in a dating app-analogue study. Participants ( = 269) first completed some trait measures and then a mock-dating task in which they judged the attractiveness of a series of targets and then decided whether to match with the target or not.

Time and memory distrust shape the dynamics of recollection and belief-in-occurrence.

The current study examined how people's metamemory judgments of recollection and belief-in-occurrence change over time. Furthermore, we examined to what extent these judgments are affected by memory distrust - the subjective appraisal of one's memory functioning - as measured by the Memory Distrust Scale (MDS) and the Squire Subjective Memory Scale (SSMQ). Participants (= 234) studied pictorial stimuli and were tested on some of these stimuli later in the same session, but were tested on other stimuli 1, 2, 4, 8, and 17 days later.

The effect of mood on shaping belief and recollection following false feedback.

The current study examined how mood affects the impact of false feedback on belief and recollection. In a three-session experiment, participants first watched 40 neutral mini videos, which were accompanied by music to induce either a positive or negative mood, or no music. Following a recognition test, they received false feedback to reduce belief in the occurrence of the events displayed in some of the videos (Session 2).

Inducing emotionally negative nonbelieved memories using negative pictures.

Memories that can be recalled but are no longer believed are termed nonbelieved memories. The current studies examined the creation of emotionally negative nonbelieved memories after viewing negatively valenced pictures. In both experiments, participants took part in two sessions.

A 2-week high-intensity interval training intervention improves ejaculation control among men with premature ejaculation.

Background: Premature ejaculation (PE), which leads to substantial distress in men and their partners, is a common male sexual dysfunction worldwide. However, there is still a lack of effective treatments without side effects.

Objectives: We investigated the effect of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on PE symptoms.

Preference for cheap-and-easy memory verification strategies is strongest among people with high memory distrust.

When choosing strategies for verifying one's memory, people are more influenced by the perceived cost of using a strategy than by its likelihood of yielding reliable information (i.e., ).

Bidirectional relationship between sexual arousal and (sex-related) disgust.

Sexual stimuli provoke both sexual arousal and disgust, and the coaction between these emotions determines sexually behavioral outcomes. The current research includes two experiments to explore the bidirectional relationship between sexual arousal toward erotic stimuli and disgust induced by sexual body fluids. Study 1 presented 234 participants (117 women) with sexual body (vs.

Effects of combining feedback and hypothesis-testing on the quality of simulated child sexual abuse interviews with avatars among Chinese university students.

Previous research has shown that simulation training using avatars with repeated feedback improves child sexual abuse interview quality. The present study added a hypothesis-testing intervention and examined if the combination of two interventions, feedback and hypothesis-testing, would improve interview quality compared to no intervention and to either intervention alone. Eighty-one Chinese university students were randomly assigned to a control, feedback, hypothesis-testing, or the combination of feedback and hypothesis-testing group and conducted five simulated child sexual abuse interviews online.

Associations between emotions and psychophysiological states and confirmation bias in question formulation in ongoing simulated investigative interviews of child sexual abuse.

Introduction: In forensic settings interviewers are advised to ask as many open-ended questions as possible. However, even experts may have difficulty following this advice potentially negatively impacting an investigation. Here, we sought to investigate how emotions and psychophysiological parameters are associated with question formulation in real time in an ongoing (simulated) child sexual abuse (CSA) interview.

Exposure Order to Photoaging and Humic Acids Significantly Modifies the Aggregation and Transformation of Nanoplastics in Aqueous Solutions.

The colloidal stability of nanoplastics in aqueous solutions is greatly regulated by photoaging and dissolved organic matter (DOM). However, how the exposure order to sunlight and DOM modifies the environmental behavior of nanoplastics is seldomly determined. Here, with two different exposure orders, we investigated the impact of molecular-weight (MW)-fractionated humic acids (HAs) derived from biochar and the Suwannee River, respectively, on the aggregation of poly(ethylene terephthalate) nanoplastics (PET-NPs) in mono- and divalent electrolyte solutions.

Effects of Ginger on Disgust, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Engagement: A Placebo-Controlled Experiment.

Sexual problems are common complaints across countries and cultures, and behavioral immune system theory suggests disgust plays an essential role in sexual functioning. The current study investigated 1) if disgust induced by sexual body fluids would reduce sexual arousal, reduce the likelihood of sexual engagement, and enhance disgust toward subsequent erotic stimuli, and 2) if the administration of ginger would affect these reactions. We administered either ginger or placebo pills to a sample of 247 participants ( = 21.

Azepine-Embedded Seco-Hexabenzocoronene-Based Helix Nanographenes: Access to Modification of the Core by N-H Functionalization.

Contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) or nanographenes (NGs) have received increasing attention and are mostly prepared by "bottom-up" strategies. Apparently, systematically tuning the properties of NGs for application is important but challenging. Here, a new type of helix, azepine-embedded NGs, were designed and synthesized by the introduction of NH into the hexa--hexabenzocoronene (HBC) core.

Criticality and Phase Classification for Quadratic Open Quantum Many-Body Systems.

We study the steady states of translation-invariant open quantum many-body systems governed by Lindblad master equations, where the Hamiltonian is quadratic in the ladder operators, and the Lindblad operators are either linear or quadratic and Hermitian. These systems are called quasifree and quadratic, respectively. We find that steady states of one-dimensional systems with finite-range interactions necessarily have exponentially decaying Green's functions.

A tetrazole-ene photoactivatable fluorophore with improved brightness and stability in protic solution.

The pyrazoline fluorophore, generated by photoinduced tetrazole-ene cycloaddition, shows faint fluorescence in protic solvents. To suppress this fluorescence-quenching, we rationally designed a series of substituted diaryl tetrazoles at the N-side phenyl ring to produce a tetrazole-ene based photoactivatable fluorophore. Spectroscopic and cellular imaging studies demonstrated that the version of the fluorophore with a bis(trifluoromethyl)benzene substituent exhibited significantly enhanced brightness and photostability.

Photoactivatable Fluorogenic Azide-Alkyne Click Reaction: A Dual-Activation Fluorescent Probe.

Aryl azide and diaryl tetrazole are both photoactive molecules, which can form nitrene and nitrile imine intermediates respectively by photolysis. Depending on the new finding that the azide can suppress the photolysis of tetrazole in the azide-tetrazole conjugated system, we developed aryl azide-tetrazole probes for the photoactivatable fluorogenic azide alkyne click (PFAAC) reaction, in which the aryl azide-tetrazole probes were not phoroactivatable fluorogenic itself, but the triazole products after click reaction were prefluorophore that can be activated by light. Therefore, in PFAAC chemistry, the fluorescent probes can be activated by two orthogonal events: azide-alkyne click reaction and light, which leads to spatiotemporal resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio.

SemanticCAP: Chromatin Accessibility Prediction Enhanced by Features Learning from a Language Model.

A large number of inorganic and organic compounds are able to bind DNA and form complexes, among which drug-related molecules are important. Chromatin accessibility changes not only directly affect drug-DNA interactions, but they can promote or inhibit the expression of the critical genes associated with drug resistance by affecting the DNA binding capacity of TFs and transcriptional regulators. However, the biological experimental techniques for measuring it are expensive and time-consuming.

Azepine- or Oxepine-embedded Double Saddle-Helix Nanographenes.

The azepine- and oxepine-embedded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) 1-3, as the hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC)-based nanographenes (NG) were designed and synthesized by Diels-Alder reaction of cyclic alkene with tetrachlorothiophene-S,S-dioxide, followed by Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling and Scholl-type cyclodehydrogenation. Due to the strained seven-membered ring and the inherent structural pattern, heteroatom-doped NGs 1-3 show C symmetrical, double saddle-helix hybrid conformation, which represents a new shape for HBC based nanographenes. The calculation studies reveal the low aromaticity of the 8π heterocycles themselves and the heterocycles also decrease the electron delocalization of benzenes surrounding them.

Azepine- or Azocine-Embedded Hexabenzocoronene Derivatives as Nitrogen-Doped Saddle or Saddle-Helix Nanographenes.

Two novel nitrogen-doped, hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC)-based nanographenes (NGs) 1 and 2 bearing an azepine and an azocine at the fjord region, respectively, were synthesized and characterized. Notably, structure 1 was synthesized by Diels-Alder reaction of cyclic alkene and tetrachlorothiophene-S,S-dioxide, followed by Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling and Scholl-type reactions, which represents a modified strategy to construct NGs. The azo-heptagon-embedded NG 1 leads to a saddle shape, and the azo-octagon-embedded NG 2 exhibits a distorted saddle-helix conformation with the largest torsion angle recorded so far in [5]helicenes.

Photochemical Transformation and Catalytic Activity of Dissolved Black Nitrogen Released from Environmental Black Carbon.

Biomass combustion results in the formation and wide distribution of black carbon (BC) in soils, wherein the dissolved fractions are among the most active components. Although the presence of dissolved black nitrogen (DBN) in BC has been identified, its environmental behavior and implication are not understood. This study investigated the photochemical transformation and catalytic activity of DBN under simulated solar irradiation.

Excess entropy and long-time diffusion in colloidal fluids with short-range interparticle attraction.

Liquid structure and dynamics are experimentally investigated in colloidal suspensions with short-range depletion attraction. The colloidal fluid samples consist of hard-sphere colloidal particles suspended along with rodlike depletants based on surfactant micelles. The spheres have a range of surface chemistries, diameters, and packing fractions, and the rodlike micelle length depends on the temperature.

Platinum-enhanced amorphous TiO-filled mesoporous TiO crystals for the photocatalytic mineralization of tetracycline hydrochloride.

The adsorption ability and photoactivity of a photocatalyst largely determine the mineralization efficiency of antibiotics. Herein, aiming to enhance the adsorption and mineralization of antibiotics, we constructed a hierarchical porous core-shell structure by filling amorphous TiO in the pores of Pt-doped mesoporous TiO crystals (MCs). The physical-chemical properties of the prepared samples were investigated by surface photovoltage spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscope, etc.