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An exploratory study was conducted on 600 adults from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires regarded infidelity, typifying the population through a taxonomy of emotional responses with an online questionnaire. According to previous research, and opposite to women, men would show sexual and non-emotional jealousies responses, since female infidelity could lead to the possibility of having offspring that were not genetically theirs. Behaviors were organized according to the Perceptions of Dating Infidelity Scale, distinguishing three kinds of responses: ambiguous, explicit and misleading ones. Using Chi square, we discuss the differences regarding these variables: age, marital status, gender, educational level and religious practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the relationship between political ideology, voting behavior and emotional responses after Peruvian presidential elections in 2011. Scales of intolerance for ambiguity, need for closure, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and the right-wing political orientation were used to assess right-wing political conservatism. A structural equation model proposes that intolerance of ambiguity and need for closure exert a direct effect on RWA. Also, RWA influences directly the right-wing political orientation, which exerts a direct influence on negative emotional responses and an inverse effect on positive emotional responses after O. Humala's victory. Final discussion focuses on the contemporary relevance of left/right ideological continuum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Warnings against addictive products inform the public about potential health and behavioral risks caused by the use and abuse of such products, in order to minimize such risks. This paper analyzes the aspects of information processing, emotional responses, and possible changes of attitude due to variations in two important conditions for such communications: the threat in the message contents and the nature of the issuer. To do so, this paper offers a conceptual review of diverse aspects that affect the efficacy of the warnings, it examines the persuasive role of the threat in the communication and of the issuer of the message and, finally, it discusses the weight of some personal variables that affect information processing. Such arguments give rise to a set of propositions for research on the cognitive process of interiorization that such messages have and on how a person's attitude may be affected. The conceptual basis for this paper is a combination of the elaboration likelihood model (ELM) and of the protection motivation theory (PMT). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]