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Spree Shooting and Emotions
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Why did Nidal Malik Hasan and other spree shooters murder their victims? One approach would concern the cybernetics of emotion involving recursive loops of shame and anger.Self-generated loops of shame alone are commonplace among those who blush easily. They report that the awareness of their blushing generates embarrassment, that in turn generates further blushing, and around and around, sometimes leading even to paralysis.Since normal emotions are extremely brief in duration, a few seconds, the idea of a feeling loop opens up a new area of exploration.
Emotions that persist over time have been a puzzle for researchers, s...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Politics Psychiatry Relationships Social Life anger cybernetics doomsday machine embarrassment emergencies emotion emotion loops emotions extreme violence fear feedback loops inter group isolation malik hasa Source Type: consumer
Rampage ShootingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Why did Nidal Malik Hasan and other spree shooters murder their victims? One approach would concern the cybernetics of emotion involving recursive loops of shame and anger.Self-generated loops of shame alone are commonplace among those who blush easily. They report that the awareness of their blushing generates embarrassment, that in turn generates further blushing, and around and around, sometimes leading even to paralysis.Since normal emotions are extremely brief in duration, a few seconds, the idea of a feeling loop opens up a new area of exploration.
Emotions that persist over time have been a puzzle for researchers, s...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Politics Psychiatry Relationships Social Life anger cybernetics doomsday machine embarrassment emergencies emotion emotion loops emotions extreme violence fear feedback loops inter group isolation malik hasa Source Type: consumer
Shooting Spree: A Response to Constant Humiliation?Email this article to a colleague.
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Why did Nidal Malik Hasan and other spree shooters murder their victims? One approach would concern the cybernetics of emotion involving recursive loops of shame and anger.Self-generated loops of shame alone are commonplace among those who blush easily. They report that the awareness of their blushing generates embarrassment, that in turn generates further blushing, and around and around, sometimes leading even to paralysis.Since normal emotions are extremely brief in duration, a few seconds, the idea of a feeling loop opens up a new area of exploration. Emotions that persist over time have been a puzzle for researchers, s...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomas Scheff, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Politics Psychiatry Relationships Social Life anger cybernetics doomsday machine embarrassment emergencies emotion emotion loops emotions extreme violence fear feedback loops inter group isolation malik hasa Source Type: consumer
Lonely Men Commit Mass MurdersEmail this article to a colleague.
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A mass murderer has been discovered each of the last three days. When we examine the men's lives, we are struck by their loneliness and yearning for intimacy, which leads some to strike out in bizarre and violent ways.November 4, 2009. The home of Anthony Sowell, 50, a convicted sex offender, was searched, revealing 10 bodies, along with one skull. Mr. Sowell had served 15 years for sexual assault. Since 2005, he had lived alone in the top floor of a duplex in a shabby Cleveland neighborhood. Police had come to Mr. Sowell's house because a 21-year-old woman reported that he had assaulted and raped her after lur...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stanton Peele Tags: Relationships 9/11 air mattress anthony sowell army officer Cleveland cleveland neighborhood female companionship Fort Hood frozen food inkling jason rodriguez mass murder mass murderer mass murderers Mohamed Atta neighborh Source Type: consumer
Murder, Malice, and HopeEmail this article to a colleague.
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We are made uncomfortable by the radomness in our lives. When something terrible happens we search for explanations in the same way that primitive people did when puzzled by the complexity of the universe. Why does one person kill another, or 13 others? The fact that murder has always been a routine phenomenon of human existence does not dispel the horror that it implies or our desire to reassure ourselves that we are less likely to die this way if only we can understand the "motive" for such acts. We can better grasp the idea of murder in certain contexts. We ac...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon S. Livingston Tags: Law and Crime Morality Personality Politics Psychiatry american history binghamton ny cafteria Contexts deadly shootings death penalty ft hood george hennard greed health club highest homicide rate human existence inner c Source Type: consumer
Training comparison among three professions prescribing psychoactive medications: psychiatric nurse practitioners, physicians, and pharmacologically trained psychologistsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Academic training leading to prescriptive authority is compared among psychiatric nurse practitioners, physicians, and pharmacologically trained psychologists. Statistics are presented on the relative emphasis that programs serving each discipline place on the preparation of their respective students in academic and clinical content areas that are relevant to the prescribing of psychoactive medication for the mental health population. An analysis of these statistics substantiates the assertion that pharmacologically trained psychologists are well prepared academically to incorporate prescriptive authority within their comp...
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychology - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mark Muse, Robert E. McGrath Source Type: journals
Decision Making in Eating Behavior: State of the Science and Recommendations for Future Research.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Additional research is needed.
PMID: 19898913 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Johnson-Askew WL, Fisher RA, Yaroch AL Tags: Ann Behav Med Source Type: journals
Decision Making in Eating Behavior: Interacting Perspectives from the Individual, Family, and Environment: An Introduction.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19898912 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rothman AJ, Gillespie AH, Johnson-Askew WL Tags: Ann Behav Med Source Type: journals
Arithmetic word problem solving: Evidence for the construction of a mental model.Email this article to a colleague.
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In the first experiment reported here, adults were given an unexpected task of problem recognition after a resolution task. During the recognition task, participants were presented with the original problems, inconsistent problems that had never been solved, and paraphrases, which respected the relational structure of the original problems but not their exact wording. More precisely, paraphrases were constructed by inversing the terms and the linguistic expressions in the original problems. Whereas the literal form of paraphrastic problems bore the least resemblance to original problems, paraphrastic problems were asso...
Source: Acta Psychologica - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thevenot C Tags: Acta Psychol (Amst) Source Type: journals
Breeding BabiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Can it be that we are finally realizing that humans aren't created to make litters? In the beginning--that is in the early days of reproductive technology--we were wowed with the amazing feats of medical science. One day a woman is infertile, the next day, she's bred five at a time, a full house. These families became proud diaper sponsors and could be guaranteed a photo op in women's magazines. Nowadays, they can get their own reality TV show, which will certainly help defray the costs of baby food and baby wipes.Ever since British scientist Robert Edwards made little Louise Brown in a straw (yes, he used a straw to suck ...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D. Tags: Child Development Parenting amazing feats baby food baby wipes british scientist developed nations fertil infant mortality intensive care unit litters louise brown medical science multiple births old baby premature births p Source Type: consumer
On Crazy ShrinksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Our patients. Clients. Call them what you will. They suspect us all the time anyway. That we are secretly the crazy ones; they the stolid norm. They come for our help and often we heal, but still that resentful suspicion lingers. They may sit in the patient chair, but always slightly the doctor is devalued as much as he is idealized.We live our professional and social lives turning the jabs to plowshares. The anxious jokes acquaintances make about whether they are being analyzed. (They are not, not unless they are paying customers. But we cannot help how much they reveal without our making the slightest effort. Quit ...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Judith Sills Tags: Work boot straps catastrophic loss chants contempt crazy ones crazy shrinks jabs jokes malik hasan nidal norm pint plowshares poison pot power imbalance psychiatry psychotherapists psychotherapy rage suspicion w Source Type: consumer
"A Room of One's Own" - I'll be Happy with the Bathroom!Email this article to a colleague.
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Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own" wrote passionately about the need for women to have a place of their own to write and to be creative.Eighty years later, women across the country still have the same lament! Mother's whether they live in mansions or apartments eventually all will get driven to the smallest room in the house, the bathroom.From the privacy of their bathrooms, women run multi million dollar businesses, have heartfelt conversations with their best friends and conduct interviews. Hampers can serve as a desk for your laptop and the inside a file cabinet. In times of exhaustion, the top of the hamper can ...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wanda Behrens-Horrell, L.C.S.W., NCPsyA Tags: Parenting airedale battleground commode conduct interviews daught dollar businesses exhaustion file cabinet green leaves hamper mansions northern toilet paper private place running water small blessings sound barrier squa Source Type: consumer
The Shrink Who CrackedEmail this article to a colleague.
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What we can learn from Fort Hood.
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. Tags: Law and Crime Source Type: consumer
The Case of Nidal Malik Hasan's Shooting at Fort HoodEmail this article to a colleague.
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I've been blogging about anger and repression for several weeks now, and the shooting at Fort Hood can figure into this discussion. My take on it is that Hasan was furious and he could not automatically repress this rage. The repression wasn't working because he was especially conscious of who he felt was tampering with his inner narrative. And this inner narrative was a confirming one most likely concerning something about his pride in being a Muslim and how he felt that this image of his identity-group was being attacked (and most likely in his mind, unjustly attacked). It was a rage that was born out of a need to protec...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Henry Kellerman, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Source Type: consumer
The Career Path of a ShooterEmail this article to a colleague.
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The frustrated rage behind the rampage.
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Langman, Ph.D. Tags: Law and Crime Source Type: consumer
Our Health, Our Say: Towards a Feminist Perspective of Lesbian Health PsychologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although women’s health has been a central concern of feminist psychology, lesbian health has been largely overlooked. Adopting a feminist approach, this article considers the distinctiveness of lesbian health psychology by examining the contexts for lesbian health. Notions of disease and risk have underpinned the endeavour of constituting lesbians’ health as a research discipline. Dominant traditions have established lesbian health psychology along key dimensions of difference from heterosexual women: differences in risk and preventive health behaviours, in healthy behaviours, in experiences of healthcare, in ...
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fish, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Chronic Illness in Non-heterosexual Contexts: An Online Survey of ExperiencesEmail this article to a colleague.
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In this article we contribute to the expansion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health psychology beyond the confines of sexual health by examining the experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual people living with non-HIV related chronic illness. Using a (predominantly) qualitative online survey, the perspectives of 190 LGB people with 52 different chronic illnesses from eight countries were collected. The five most commonly reported physical conditions were arthritis, hypertension, diabetes, asthma and chronic fatigue syndrome. Our analysis focuses on four themes within participants’ written co...
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jowett, A., Peel, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Transgender People in Australia and New Zealand: Health, Well-being and Access to Health ServicesEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study set out to recruit the broadest possible community sample by using a range of recruitment techniques and an online survey. In total, 253 respondents completed the survey. Of these, 229 were from Australia (90.5%) and 24 (9.5%) were from New Zealand. Respondents rated their health on a five-point scale; the majority of the sample rated their health as ‘good’ or ‘very good’. On the SF36 scale, respondents had poorer health ratings than the general population in Australia and New Zealand. Respondents reported rates of depression much higher than those found in the general Australian populati...
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pitts, M. K., Couch, M., Mulcare, H., Croy, S., Mitchell, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Discharged for Homosexuality from the Canadian Military: Health Implications for LesbiansEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study examines the short- and long-term psychological, physical and social health implications associated with pre-1992 investigations and eventual discharge of Canadian military servicewomen for reasons of homosexuality. Theoretically, it sheds light on the impact of the intersection between sexism and heterosexism. The feminist psycho-social ethnography of the commonplace methodology was utilized. The study draws on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 13 former military personnel who self-identified as lesbian. While in the military, study participants were persecuted and forced to adopt various cognitive and b...
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Poulin, C., Gouliquer, L., Moore, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
The Health and Well-being Implications of Emotion Work Undertaken by Gay Sperm DonorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article suggests that this is at least in part caused by the considerable ‘emotion work’ involved in sperm donation. Drawing on 21 interviews conducted with gay Australian sperm donors, the article provides a thematic analysis of instances of such emotion work and explores the implications of this for the health and well-being of gay men who donate sperm both to clinics and in private arrangements.
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Riggs, D. W. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Understandings of Cervical Screening in Sexual Minority Women: A Q-Methodological StudyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Discursive perspectives argue that cervical screening carries social and moral meaning. Overlooked by research into the health needs of sexual minority women, previous literature that has examined uptake of cervical screening has instead targeted increasing attendance via information and service provision. In order to explore the diversity of meanings that British sexual minority women have about cervical screening, the Q-sorts of 34 sexual minority women were factor analysed by-person and rotated to simple structure using Varimax. The five factors are interpreted and discussed relative to competing discourses on informati...
Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darwin, Z., Campbell, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
How Does an Emergent LGBTQ Health Psychology Reconstruct its Subject?Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Flowers, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Heterocentric Practices in Health Research and Health Care: Implications for Mental Health and Subjectivity of LGBTQ IndividualsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ussher, J. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Thank You to our Volume 19 ReviewersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Editorial Introduction: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Health Psychology: Historical Development and Future PossibilitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Feminism - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peel, E., Thomson, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals
Redbank HouseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 30(4): ii-ii
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul Rhodes Source Type: journals
A Moment of Body "Thanksgiving"Email this article to a colleague.
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Last week, I wrote about my struggle to help my 13-year-old daughter find a Halloween costume that was fun, but not too sexy. It was no easy task. But in the end, it was a non-issue: The kid never went trick or treating.
Instead, she spent Halloween on the couch, with a fever and an awful case of the flu.
It was a scary six days in our house.
At 13 -- and sometimes, sadly, at 30 and 40 -- we're so busy thinking about all the ways our bodies don't measure up to whatever standard we hold in our heads as "perfect" that we sometimes fail to appreciate the simple pleasure and value of good health.
Normally, I'm t...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dara Chadwick Tags: Parenting 12 year old girl absolute terror Body image case of the flu cocoa firm believer flu virus good health gratitude Halloween costume innocence knowledge is power little girl next morning sick child simple pleasure Source Type: consumer
Pressure On To Tackle Stress As Business Loses Out, UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is supporting National Stress Awareness Day as statistics reveal more than 11 million working days were lost to work related stress last year. This startling figure translates as a £4 billion cost to society and HSE wants companies to be made aware of the real cost, not only to people but also to business.
Source: Anxiety News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news
Workplace Stress - Examine The Causes Says UNISON, UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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UNISON, the UK's largest public sector union, has accused employers of "burying their heads in the sand," instead of tackling stress, anxiety and depression in the workplace. The latest statistics from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence show that 13.7 million working days are lost each year as a result of work-related illness, costing employers a massive £28.3bn a year.
Source: Anxiety News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news
First LoveEmail this article to a colleague.
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The romances of youth stay with us forever.
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy Kalish, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Teen Love Source Type: consumer
Sex TalkEmail this article to a colleague.
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How can we help our teenagers take control?
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Terri Apter Tags: Parenting Teen Love Source Type: consumer
Male Virginity MythsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Don't assume boys have only one thing on their minds.
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer A. Leigh, Psy. D. Tags: Gender Teen Love Source Type: consumer
Addictive LoveEmail this article to a colleague.
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Romeo and Juliet are not good role models.
Source: Psychology Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stanton Peele Tags: Relationships Teen Love Source Type: consumer
What Is The Value Of A Life?Email this article to a colleague.
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I was once told that I shouldn't have kids, because the child could be born with Asperger's, like me. I answered with a question - "Would you have given the same advice to my parents?""Well," came the answer, "look at all the difficulties you've had, and the pain you've had to endure...surely you wouldn't wish that on a child." Well, it's true that living my life with Asperger's has often been difficult. Yes, I have dealt with my fair share of pain and rejection... In a perfect world I wouldn't want a child to go through the same issues. But I also had to wonder...is life just about avoiding p...
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lynne Soraya Tags: Autism Child Development Cognition Creativity Gender Happiness Health Memory Morality Neuroscience Parenting Personality Relationships Resilience Self-Help Social Life Spirituality Stress abstract concept asperger syn Source Type: consumer
Resisting the urge to gossipEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's easy to get caught up in gossip. A friend or colleague starts talking about someone you both know. She lays out some juicy information you haven't heard before, almost baiting you to chime in. Whether it's true or not, you reflexively up the ante by spilling a rumor you recently heard about that person, too. Later, you wonder why you responded that way or even regret that you got sucked into the conversation.To some extent, it's human nature to talk about mutual acquaintances and most chitchat is innocuous. When two friends pass along information about other people within the context of a confidential, trusting relati...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Social Life Work broker changing the subject chitchat critical comments criticism employee female formal staff friend friendship friendship expert gossip hallett harger incidences indiana university innu Source Type: consumer
What is smart?Email this article to a colleague.
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"He's such a bright little boy!" My mother and her friends said things like that all the time, as they pointed to me when they thought I wasn't paying attention.
Now that I'm grown, I can let them in on a secret: There was never a time when I didn't pay attention to grownups as a kid. I watched them really close, all the time. I may not have understood everything I heard, but I surely took it all in.
But what did it mean? I got a new bike, and my mother said, "What a pretty red bicycle!" Everyone who saw it said the same thing. It was a nice, red bike. The attributes didn't change. It was always a bike, and always red. No ...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John Elder Robison Tags: Autism Cognition Creativity Neuroscience Personality attributes brainpower colors grownups intelligence john elder moms new bike paying attention phrases reasoning red bicycle red bike smart kids smart ones whim Source Type: consumer
Educational Policy and Country Outcomes in International Cognitive Competence StudiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]Prior studies of students' and adults' cognitive competence have shown large differences between nations, equivalent to a difference of 5 to 10 years of schooling. These differences seem to be relevant because studies using different research paradigms have demonstrated that population-level cognitive abilities are related to a number of important societal outcomes, including productivity, democratization, and health. In this overview of transnational differences, we document a number of positive predictors of international differences in student competence, including the amount of preschool education, stude...
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heiner Rindermann, Stephen J. Ceci Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
Monitoring Matters: Meta-Analytic Review Reveals the Reliable Linkage of Parental Monitoring With Adolescent Marijuana UseEmail this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]Parental monitoring is commonly accredited as an important protective factor against risky adolescent behaviors. In this meta-analytic review, associations of adolescents' perceptions of parental monitoring with adolescent marijuana use were collected and quantified across 25 independent samples from 17 empirical studies involving 35,367 unique participants. Applying a random-effects model, the average magnitude of effect was r=[minus].21. The association was significantly stronger in female-only samples (r=[minus].31 vs. r=[minus].19, p < .001) and when parental monitoring was defined purely in terms of par...
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Andrew Lac, William D. Crano Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
Ten Statisticians and Their Impacts for PsychologistsEmail this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]Although psychologists frequently use statistical procedures, they are often unaware of the statisticians most associated with these procedures. Learning more about the people will aid understanding of the techniques. In this article, I present a list of 10 prominent statisticians: David Cox, Bradley Efron, Ronald Fisher, Leo Goodman, John Nelder, Jerzy Neyman, Karl Pearson, Donald Rubin, Robert Tibshirani, and John Tukey. I then discuss their key contributions and impact for psychology, as well as some aspects of their nonacademic lives.
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Daniel B. Wright Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
A Role for the X Chromosome in Sex Differences in Variability in General Intelligence?Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]There is substantial evidence that males are more variable than females in general intelligence. In recent years, researchers have presented this as a reason that, although there is little, if any, mean sex difference in general intelligence, males tend to be overrepresented at both ends of its overall distribution. Part of the explanation could be the presence of genes on the X chromosome related both to syndromal disorders involving mental retardation and to population variation in general intelligence occurring normally. Genes on the X chromosome appear overrepresented among genes with known involvement i...
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wendy Johnson, Andrew Carothers, Ian J. Deary Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
Sex Differences in Variability for Cognitive Measures: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? (Commentary on Johnson et al., 2009)Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]Theories about the origin of cognitive sex differences must address differences in three portions of ability distributions: low-tail variability, high-tail variability, and mean values. In addition, genetic theories must provide evidence that these three types of differences are (at least in large part) caused by alleles that are located on the X chromosome. It is well established that there are more mentally retarded males than females, and this disparity is attributable to genes located on the X chromosome. By contrast, there are no known "intelligence genes" that can provide a parallel explanation for dif...
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eric Turkheimer, Diane F. Halpern Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
Commentary on "A Role for the X Chromosome in Sex Differences in Variability in General Intelligence?" (Johnson et al., 2009)Email this article to a colleague.
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ABSTRACT[mdash]Johnson et al.'s (2009) article highlights the role of X-chromosomal genes in general intelligence and draws attention to their potential role in explaining the observed greater variance for this trait in males and their excess at both extremes of the distribution. We note that this would result from a simple additive effect of X-linked intelligence genes and also discuss the potentially important contribution of recessive deleterious loci. The buffering effect of heterozygosity in females will be partly constrained by the skewing of X-inactivation patterns increasing the variance of females beyond what is e...
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ian W. Craig, Claire M.A. Haworth, Robert Plomin Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
Speculation to Inform and Speculation to Explore: Response to Craig et al. (2009) and Turkheimer & Halpern (2009)Email this article to a colleague.
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This article, a follow-up to an empirical article on the same subject, was written with both of these purposes in mind. Many researchers are interested in uncovering the genetic mechanisms underlying general intelligence, so no doubt the roles of genes on the X chromosome will one day be understood. Psychologists can contribute best to these developments by being informed about the genetic issues involved.
Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wendy Johnson, Andrew Carothers, Ian J. Deary Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals
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Source: Perspectives on Psychological Science - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: INDEX TO VOLUME 4, 2009 Source Type: journals
Depressive symptoms and unmitigated communion in support providersEmail this article to a colleague.
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In this research, we argue and demonstrate that the association between enacted (un)supportive behaviour and depressive symptoms is a function of the providers' levels of unmitigated communion (UC). UC is characterized by overinvolvement in others' problems, self-neglect and externalized self-evaluation. These characteristics appear to predispose individuals high in UC to experience depressive symptoms. As anticipated, we show that enacted supportive behaviour was negatively associated with depressive symptoms (Study 1 and 2), and enacted unsupportive behaviour was positively associated with depressive symptoms (Study 2), ...
Source: European Journal of Personality - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lihua Jin, Nico W. Van Yperen, Robbert Sanderman, Mariët Hagedoorn Source Type: journals
Exploring social capital in rural settlements of an islander region in GreeceEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study has two aims: First to provide an account of rural residents' perceptions of village life in terms of interpersonal support, mutual aid, trust, social cohesion and community competence, and second to examine the suitability of the social capital notion within the specific cultural context. A combination of data collection procedures and a range of sources were employed, such as key informants, rural residents and researchers' field observations. The findings indicate that small farming communities of high devotion with deep roots and strong sense of belonging face severe demographic imbalance and experience low ...
Source: Journal of Community - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anastasia Zissi, Andromachi Tseloni, Petros Skapinakis, Maria Savvidou, Mihaela Chiou Source Type: journals
Changes in teacher stress through participation in pre-referral intervention teamsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study followed 33 elementary education teachers prospectively through their participation in a pre-referral intervention team (PIT) program. Hierarchical linear modeling indicated that, across the pre-referral process, teachers felt less distress related to referred students' needs, termed "dyadic stress." Teachers' dyadic stress was partially accounted for by student progress on referral concerns. Teachers' experience of PIT support was also linked to reductions in stress and lower dyadic stress after pre-referral interventions were implemented. The findings have implications for how school practitioners consult with...
Source: Psychology in the Schools - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ann Shargo Lhospital, Anne Gregory Source Type: journals
Sleep consistency and sufficiency: are both necessary for less psychological strain?Email this article to a colleague.
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This study provided preliminary evidence that sleep as a technique for resource replenishment alone may not be enough to reduce psychological strain. Continued exploration of the potential resource-enhancement aspect of consistent sleep may be a fruitful avenue of stress management research. Much like other routine activities that have shown to increase self-regulatory strength, consistent sleep may serve as an effective strain intervention, thereby preventing negative acute and chronic health effects. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Stress and Health - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Larissa K. Barber, David C. Munz, Patricia G. Bagsby, Eric D. Powell Source Type: journals
Stress-related growth: pre-intervention correlates and change following a resilience interventionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Correlates of stress-related growth and the effectiveness of a resilience intervention to enhance stress-related growth were examined. College students were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 31) and waiting list control (n = 33) groups. The intervention group received the psychoeducational intervention, Transforming Lives Through Resilience Education, in four weekly 2-hour sessions. Measures of personal, environmental and stressor characteristics, coping strategies, adjustment and stress-related growth were assessed. Multiple regressions revealed that pre-intervention self-esteem, self-leadership, hopeful coping and d...
Source: Stress and Health - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christyn L. Dolbier, Shanna Smith Jaggars, Mary A. Steinhardt Source Type: journals
Introducing RedbankEmail this article to a colleague.
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) 30(4): 233-234
Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT) - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jenny Brown Source Type: journals
