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RESOLUTION Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes. Resolved, That the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, and Ways and Means, are directed to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America. ... The Committee on the Judiciary shall report to the House of Representatives such resolutions, articles of impeachment, or other recommendations as it deems proper

Motor plans persist to influence subsequent actions with four or more response alternatives

Motor activity has the potential to persist after action and influence subsequent behaviour. A standard approach to isolating a motoric influence is to map two stimuli onto each response, so that response and stimulus repetition can be dissociated. A response-only response-repetition (RoRR) effect can then be assessed, arising if the same response made to two unrelated stimuli is nonetheless produced more rapidly. This kind of motoric behavioural influence of one response on the next has proved elusive in reaction time tasks involving choices between key presses, at least when stimuli mapped to each response are difficult to categorise together. However, such tasks have traditionally involved only a few response alternatives. We hypothesised that a larger load on the motor system might prevent participants from holding all possible action plans active throughout an experiment, and thus reveal trial-to-trial motor priming in the form of an RoRR effect. In our first experiment, increasing the number of response alternatives to four or eight yielded a reliable RoRR effect. This effect was replicated in Experiment 2, where it also proved persistent across practice and resistant to changes in response configuration. Our results are consistent with evidence of motoric perseveration in other kinds of motor task, such as reaching and grasping, and have implications for the generation of speeded decisions in a range of activities

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How Progressives Perceive Polyamory

This research seeks to address how one’s progressive political attitudes influence their opinions and perceptions of polyamory. We explore this proposal through the use of identity theory in conjunction with the related ideas of non-normative groups and social structures. Our motivations in exploring this relationship stem from the lack of research on polyamory in general within academia, and especially the lack of studies that cover the intersection of politics and socially constructed dating ideals. As politics become increasingly intertwined with our personal lives, it seems necessary to explore how they might affect how we view the pervasive, intimate social structures that surround us. Research was conducted strictly on Winthrop University’s campus and sampled only students who attend the institution. Information was gathered through 12 semi-structured interviews that lasted 20-40 minutes. Participants were asked 19 questions regarding their own personal identities, opinions on polyamory, progressivism, and how all three might intersect. The findings concluded that those who identify with non-normative groups, specifically those who belong to the LGBTQIA+ community, tend to be drawn towards more progressive movements as they are usually more accepting. These findings could be useful in the future as polarizing politics begin to be used as a way of identifying and codifying people. Studying how closely people consider their political views when formulating their thoughts on social structures, such as monogamy, will allow future researchers to refine their own understanding of identity

Does a Republican President in Office Explain the Public’s Confidence in the Police?

What is the relationship between a Republican President in office and the public’s confidence in the police? In this study, we explore whether the public’s confidence in the police is explained by the party in power. Using the public opinion poll data compiled from Gallup over time, we conduct multiple regression analyses to test whether confidence in the police goes up among American citizens during Republican presidential terms compared to Democratic presidential terms. The preliminary zero-order relationship shows that the percentage of confidence in the police is positively correlated with a Republican president in office. In multiple regression analyses, we will examine whether the correlation holds after controlling for potential confounders such as economic growth and presidential approval rating. The results from our analyses will help us understand whether and to what extent the public’s confidence in the police force reflects partisan bias