This article reports on a study concerning relationships between personality traits and three aspects of Individual Learning Theories (ILTs) on acquiring social-communicative competence: self-perceived social-communicative competence, domain-related learning conceptions and preferred learning situations. …

The work of Marcel Proust, the famous novelist of the twentieth century, is often associated with a recall of long-forgotten sensations aroused by typically French delicacies, the 'madeleines'. However, it is not just a case of vivid remembrance. In Sodom et Gomorrhe, part IV of his masterwork A la recherche …

In this paper, we explore the desires that play a role at the palliative stage and relate them to various approaches to patient autonomy. What attitude can physicians and other caregivers take to the desires of patients at the palliative stage? We examine this question by introducing five physicians …