Inappropriate-joke tellers were perceived as less competent and lower status than serious responders, even when the joke was funny.
The Third Geneva Convention at a minimum requires that, in doubtful cases, combatants who fall into the hands of the enemy must be treated as P.O.W.'s until a competent tribunal determines their status.
Inclusion criteria for this study were aged between 3 and 12 years, closed Gartland type III supracondylar humeral fracture [13], duration of injury <4 days, and competent neurological and vascular status of the affected limb.
To assess such signatures is a first necessary step to qualify the cumulus cell status as competent or incompetent.
Replicating our previous results, individuals who told a successful joke were perceived as more competent, more confident, and higher status than serious individuals.
This projected upon migrants the status of minimally competent workers, stripping them of their dignity.
By providing ART only to HIV-infected people with a low CD4 cell count, it indirectly implies that mortality among HIV-infected individuals whose immune status is still competent, as evidenced by higher CD4 count, is low and similar to that observed in the general population.
We found that the second presenter was perceived as more competent, more confident, and higher in status when presenting the joke testimonial.
In trying to link Obama to terrorism they're questioning his status, not as a competent politician, but as an American.
Negative responders were similar to the total sample in age (mean 33.8 years), weight satisfaction (50% were very/unsatisfied, 25% very/satisfied), perceiving being physically active (83%) for 30 or more minutes each day (75%) and EC status (42% eating competent, 42% high EC tertile).
