The Multidimensional Emotional Empathy Scale (MDEES)

The Multidimesional Emotional Empathy Scale (Caruso & Mayer, 1998) is a scale of self-reported empathy

Does Hard Incompatibilism Really Abolish ‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’? Some Thoughts in Response to Larry Alexander

In a challenge to recent writings of Derk Pereboom and Gregg Caruso,3 Larry Alexander makes the following claim: If one accepts the Pereboom-Caruso “hard incompatibilist” view of choice, which regards blame and retributive punishment as morally unjustified because free will is an illusion, then “normativity completely disappears.” In making this claim, Professor Alexander appears to hold that the moral distinction between right and wrong conduct (“normativity”) cannot effectively exist unless those who do wrong “deserve” to receive blame and punishment in response to their misbehavior. This is not, however, necessarily so

Laboratory Technical Supplement for the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)

The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) User’s Manual (Mayer, Salovey & Caruso, 2002), published by MHS, provides a great deal of information about using the MSCEIT test. Since the publication of the MHS manual, additional issues have arisen within the test-user and research communities associated with the test. This brief technical document addresses two of those concerns. This laboratory technical supplement covers two topics that arise regarding the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test: how to calculate a split half reliability for the test, and how to develop and score the test using local norms (i.e., national or regional norms, or norms for special populations). The use of the split-half reliability estimate is important with the MSCEIT because our research indicates that coefficient alpha reliabilities underestimate the reliability of the test. An in-depth discussion of this issue will appear in a forthcoming set of papers in the journal Emotion. The development of national and specialized norms are important to interpreting test scores outside of general populations in North America, i.e., for translated versions of the scale and for English-language versions of the scale administered outside of North America, England, Australia, and South Africa (areas that are part of the original standardization sample

Samuel L. Caruso Oral History

Samuel L. Caruso D.O., 1947 attended the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy during the wartime accelerated program, and was Chair of the Pediatrics Department at PCOM from 1972-1980, and was appointed Medical Director of the City Ave. hospital in 1980. In this interview, Caruso discusses the origins of the Pediatric Department and pediatric residency program at PCOM, his experiences and recollections of the college during his student years, his post-war private pediatric practice in North Philadelphia and work at the Women\u27s Homeopathic and City Ave. Hospitals, and professional relations between osteopathic and allopathic pediatricians. A short interview with Caruso\u27s wife (name not given, referred to in the interview as Mrs. Caruso) follows the main subject

Free Will Skepticism and the Question of Creativity: Creativity, Desert, and Self-Creation

Free will skepticism maintains that what we do, and the way we are, is ultimately the result of factors beyond our control and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in the basic desert sense—the sense that would make us truly deserving of praise and blame. In recent years, a number of contemporary philosophers have advanced and defended versions of free will skepticism, including Derk Pereboom (2001, 2014), Galen Strawson (2010), Neil Levy (2011), Bruce Waller (2011, 2015), and myself (Caruso 2012, 2013, forthcoming). Critics, however, often complain that adopting such views would have dire consequences for ourselves, society, morality, meaning, and the law. They fear, for instance, that relinquishing belief in free will and basic desert moral responsibility would leave us unable to adequately deal with criminal behavior, increase anti-social conduct, and undermine meaning in life. In response, free will skeptics argue that life without free will and basic desert moral responsibility would not be as destructive as many people believe (see, e.g., Pereboom 2001, 2014; Waller 2011, 2015; Caruso 2016, forthcoming). According to optimistic skeptics, prospects of finding meaning in life or of sustaining good interpersonal relationships, for instance, would not be threatened. And although retributivism and severe punishment, such as the death penalty, would be ruled out, incapacitation and rehabilitation programs would still be justified (see Pereboom 2001, 2013, 2014; Levy 2012; Caruso 2016; Pereboom and Caruso, forthcoming). In this paper, I attempt to extend this general optimism about the practical implications of free will skepticism to the question of creativity. In Section I, I spell out the question of creativity and explain why it’s relevant to the problem of free will. In Section II, I identify three different conceptions of creativity and explain the practical concerns critics have with free will skepticism. In Section III, I distinguish between three different conceptions of moral responsibility and argue that at least two of them are consistent with free will skepticism. I further contend that forward-looking accounts of moral responsibility, which are perfectly consistent with free will skepticism, can justify calling agents to account for immoral behavior as well as providing encouragement for creative activities since these are important for moral and creative formation and development. I conclude in Section IV by arguing that relinquishing belief in free will and basic desert would not mean the death of creativity or our sense of achievement since important and realistic conceptions of both remain in place

Sorption vacuum trap Patent

Describing sorption vacuum trap having housing with group of reentrant wall portions projecting into internal gas-pervious container filled with gas and vapor sorbent materia

Expression pattern of estroprogestinic receptors in sinonasal inverted papilloma

open13openSerra A; Caltabiano R; Spinato G; Gallina S; Caruso S; Rapisarda V; Di Mauro P; Castro V; Conti A; Licciardello L; Maiolino L; Lanzafame S; Cocuzza SSerra, A; Caltabiano, R; Spinato, G; Gallina, S; Caruso, S; Rapisarda, V; Di Mauro, P; Castro, V; Conti, A; Licciardello, L; Maiolino, L; Lanzafame, S; Cocuzza,

Sorption vacuum trap

Modified sorption trap for use in high vacuum systems contains provisions for online regeneration of sorbent material. Trap is so constructed that it has a number of encapsulated resistance heaters and a valving and pumping device for removing gases from heated sorbing material. Excessive downtime is eliminated with this trap

Fabrication of optical reflecting diffraction gratings by light-interference phenomenon

Features of technique: major reduction in cost of fabrication; gratings exhibit low stray or scattered radiation, improve signal noise ratio, and eliminate false spectral-lines; gratings can be fabricated free of optical aberrations, with high groove frequencies, and on practically any surface geometry; and fabrication time has been reduced