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Individual and Issue-Specific Differences in Parental Knowledge and Adolescent Disclosure in Chile, the Philippines, and the United StatesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Perceived parental knowledge and adolescents' disclosure to parents were predicted from parental warmth and monitoring and adolescents' disclosure, agreement, and beliefs about obligation to obey and parental legitimacy (N=698 Chilean, Filipino, and U.S. 13[ndash]20-year-olds). The correlates of knowledge are similar in all three countries, but the relative strength of the correlations differs. Global agreement was associated with greater knowledge. Parents knew most about issues governed by rules and those where adolescents agreed, felt obliged to obey, and disclosed. Monitoring predicted knowledge only in Chile and the P...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy Darling, Patricio Cumsille, Liane Peña-Alampay, Douglas Coatsworth Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Losing Sleep Over It: Daily Variation in Sleep Quantity and Quality in Canadian Students' First Semester of UniversityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Daily covariation of sleep quantity and quality with affective, stressful, academic, and social experiences were observed in a sample of Canadian 17[ndash]19-year-olds in their first year of university. Participants (N=191) completed web-based checklists for 14 consecutive days during their first semester. Multilevel models predicting sleep quantity and quality from daily experiences indicated that more time on schoolwork, expecting a test, and alcohol use predicted less sleep whereas socializing predicted more sleep. More positive affect and no alcohol use predicted better sleep quality. Models predicting daily experience...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nancy L. Galambos, Andrea L. Dalton, Jennifer L. Maggs Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Adolescents Exiting Homelessness Over Two Years: The Risk Amplification and Abatement ModelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Risk Amplification and Abatement Model (RAAM) demonstrates that negative contact with socializing agents amplify risk, while positive contact abates risk for homeless adolescents. To test this model, the likelihood of exiting homelessness and returning to familial housing at 2 years and stably exiting over time are examined with longitudinal data collected from 183 newly homeless adolescents followed over 2 years in Los Angeles, CA. In support of RAAM, unadjusted odds of exiting at 2 years and stably exiting over 2 years revealed that engagement with prosocial peers, maternal social support, and continued school attend...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Norweeta G. Milburn, Eric Rice, Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Shelley Mallett, Doreen Rosenthal, Phillip Batterham, Susanne J. May, Andrea Witkin, Naihua Duan Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The Role of Task Values in Adolescents' Educational Tracks: A Person-Oriented ApproachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined what kinds of patterns of task-values adolescents show, and whether these patterns predict their educational and occupational expectations and school track. Six hundred and fourteen adolescents were examined twice before their transition to secondary education and once thereafter. The clustering-by-cases analyses identified 6 groups: (1) those who placed a high value on all school subjects, (2) those who did not value any of the subjects, (3) those who valued Finnish and social sciences, (4) those who valued in particular practical and art subjects, (5) those who valued only practical and art sub...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jaana Viljaranta, Jari-Erik Nurmi, Kaisa Aunola, Katariina Salmela-Aro Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

A Cross-Cultural Study of Adolescent ProcrastinationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we explore academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 612 adolescents from Canada and Singapore. Few studies have explored adolescent procrastination and no previous studies have investigated adolescent procrastination using a cross-cultural framework. Singaporean adolescents reported higher levels of procrastination and lower levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation than Canadian adolescents. Males across settings reported higher levels of procrastination and lower levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation than females. Bivariate relationships between procrastination and the motiva...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert M. Klassen, Rebecca P. Ang, Wan Har Chong, Lindsey L. Krawchuk, Vivien S. Huan, Isabella Y. F. Wong, Lay See Yeo Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Value Similarities Among Fathers, Mothers, and Adolescents and the Role of a Cultural Stereotype: Different Measurement Strategies ReconsideredEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined similarities in 8 social[ndash]cultural value orientations among fathers, mothers, and adolescents from 433 Dutch families. Results revealed different outcomes when using ordinary correlations (r), absolute difference scores (d), or profile correlations (q). Similarly, different influences of a cultural stereotype were found when applying different measurement strategies. We discuss which measurement strategies are best used under which circumstances and which role the cultural stereotype plays.
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annette M. C. Roest, Judith Semon Dubas, Jan R. M. Gerris, Rutger C. M. E. Engels Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Manuscripts Accepted for PublicationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Manuscripts Accepted for Publication Source Type: journals

Integrated models of school-based prevention: Logic and theoryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
School-based prevention programs can positively impact a range of social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. Yet the current climate of accountability pressures schools to restrict activities that are not perceived as part of the core curriculum. Building on models from public health and prevention science, we describe an integrated approach to school-based prevention. These models leverage the most effective structural and content components of social-emotional and behavioral health prevention interventions. Integrated interventions are expected to have additive and synergistic effects that result in greater impacts on m...
Source: Psychology in the Schools - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Celene E. Domitrovich, Catherine P. Bradshaw, Mark T. Greenberg, Dennis Embry, Jeanne M. Poduska, Nicholas S. Ialongo Source Type: journals

Papertrain Your Problem Relatives for Thanksgiving *Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An ounce of flattery will get you a well behaved guest Do you have any relatives or friends that ruin everyone's time on Thanksgiving or Christmas and you can't un-invite them? Do you feel guilty at wishing they'll either have other plans or be too sick to come? Do you wish there was a way to papertrain them so they don't mess on everyone else's good time? Here is how using a little applied emotional intelligence can save the day. One thing most of these high-maintenance (easy to upset, difficult to please) people have in common is that they feel as if the world is not treating them well enough. In essence they don't feel ...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr. Mark Goulston Tags: Relationships bad time Christmas communication emotional intelligence family flattery good time high maintenance holiday gatherings holidays mark goulston ounce personality problem person relatives ruin seven days shell Source Type: consumer

Don't Get Hooked by the Family Craziness: Using Brain-Wise Meditation For a Better ThanksgivingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most of us have a lovely vision of Thanksgiving: Driving along the road to Grandma's house on a familiar road, graced by autumn leaves. We imagine being greeted by warmth and family, feeling grateful and eating our familiar favorites. The kids have made turkey drawings by tracing around their adorable little hands, and the real turkey is large and golden and perfectly moist. We've brought little handmade paper pilgrims to adorn the perfectly set table, just like on the covers of the magazines at the grocery check-out.Yeah, well.Maybe the road to Grandma's Thanksgiving is familiar, but for many, from an emotional standpoint...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marsha Lucas, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships Stress brain dysfunctional family holidays meditating meditation rewire your brain thankful thankfulness Thanksgiving Source Type: consumer

ONLINE MINDFULNESS MEDITATION THERAPY FOR STRESS MANAGEMENTEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The single major cause of emotional suffering and stress in our lives comes from the accumulated habitual emotional reactions to life events that we acquire through unconscious learning. We become victims of recurrent negative thoughts and patterns of emotional reactivity that operate automatically in the mind, and that operate outside the sphere of conscious choice. We become prisoners of our habitual thinking and suffer accordingly. Therefore, it stands to reason that if we want to reduce our level of emotional stress and suffering, we must learn new strategies to counteract and neutralize our conditioned habitual reacti...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peter Strong, Ph.D. Tags: Anxiety Cognition Depression Happiness Relationships Self-Help Stress Therapy Work coffee maker conscious choice core level correspondence driving seat emotional reactions emotional reactivity emotional stress emotions Source Type: consumer

Unfriend: Not a simple verb by any meansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The New Oxford American Dictionary chose the verb "unfriend" as its 2009 Word of the Year (WOTY) and defined it this way: "to remove someone as a ‘friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook." The word "has both currency and potential longevity," explained Christine Lindberg, Oxford's senior lexicographer on the OUP Blog.The choice of this year's word is telling because the act of unfriending (or defriending) is part of the normal pruning process of maintaining a presence on social media like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. It's easy to collect more friends than you want or need, including many contacts that may...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. Tags: Happiness Relationships acts caution Christine Lindberg collateral damage community connections currency defriend defriending dump dumping ethics exclamation points Facebook friendship friendship expert Irene S. Levine Source Type: consumer

The Secret for People Who Don’t Believe in VooDooEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The latest fad in motivation is the Law of Attraction or more popularly The Secret after the motion picture and book by Rhonda Byrne. The idea being that if you use the power of The Secret you will attract health, wealth and friends to you in abundance. The Secret takes an old idea and repackages it for today’s society. The core idea is that your thoughts control the world around you. If you have positive thoughts, good things come your way. If you have negative thoughts then bad things come your way. In other words, if you wish hard enough for the...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert Wilson Tags: Happiness Philosophy Self-Help Spirituality Work abundance atomic level brain waves carnegie hall concert pianist core idea health wealth latest fad law of attraction lesson in my life motion picture Napoleon Hill Negativ Source Type: consumer

Surviving After A Loved One's Suicide: Part IIEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What did you think of the first part of my attempt to process my father's death? The story continues...let me know what you think!The next thing I knew, my mother's screaming startled me awake. She came home, walked through the door and found a note taped to the giraffe mirror outside our bathroom. She found my father in the bathtub, saw the note again and it all came together. "Our time together was too brief..." started the note. It was written in my dad's undeniable large, bold-print handwriting, and the message shot right through our hearts.But it was already too late. He'd been dead for about 15 minu...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melissa Blake Tags: Health Psychiatry Relationships Resilience Self-Help 15 minutes bathtub bold print coroners dad disability electrical engineer electrical impulses family father favorite tv giraffe handwriting healing hearts invisib Source Type: consumer

At-Risk College Students Reduce HBP, Anxiety, Depression Through Transcendental MeditationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Transcendental Meditation technique may be an effective method to reduce blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and anger among at-risk college students, according to a new study to be published in the American Journal of Hypertension, December 2009.
Source: Anxiety News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Source Type: news

A Good Play EthicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I don't wish to defend laziness but rather to speak in favour of play. Play has a lightheartedness that the work ethic lacks.Tags: mindful awareness, self-esteem, work-life
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Evan Hadkins Tags: General mindful awareness self-esteem work-life Source Type: news

Handbook of Clinical Psychology CompetenciesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in psychology as a field of study and in the number of students of clinical psychology in particular. The latter is partly due to the proliferation of professional schools of psychology that are devoted to practitioner-oriented degrees, rather than the traditional research-oriented course of study. Whatever school students emerge from, ...
Source: Springer Psychology titles - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Psychology (general) Source Type: organizations

Susan S. Levine: Loving Psychoanalysis: Technique and Theory in the Therapeutic RelationshipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewDOI 10.1007/s10615-009-0244-yAuthors Cathy Siebold, 128 East 91st A3 New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674
Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Clinical Social Work Journal Source Type: journals

Field Guide to the LonerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The real insiders.
Source: Psychology Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elizabeth Svoboda Tags: Personality Introversion Source Type: consumer

Introversion and ShynessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
They're not the same.
Source: Psychology Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophia Dembling Tags: Personality Introversion Source Type: consumer

Are You Misunderstood?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Introverts are one of several misunderstood types.
Source: Psychology Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jay Dixit Tags: Personality Introversion Source Type: consumer

Country of LonersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Is the American psyche tipping toward solitude?
Source: Psychology Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bella DePaulo, Ph.D. Tags: Personality Introversion Source Type: consumer

Evidence-based cognitive hypnotherapy for depressionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), an evidence-based multimodal treatment for depression, which can be applied to a wide range of patients with depression. The components of CH are described in sufficient detail to allow for their replication and validation. Moreover, CH for depression provides a template for studying the additive effect of hypnosis as an adjunctive treatment with other medical and psychological disorders. Although this article emphasizes evidence-based practice, this approach should not limit the scope of therapists' creativity in the application of hypnosis to the management of depressio...
Source: Contemporary Hypnosis - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Assen Alladin Source Type: journals

Sleep quality, cortisol levels, and behavioral regulation in toddlersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the association between nighttime sleep characteristics and cortisol levels and how these variables relate to aspects of children's temperament and behavior. Twenty-seven healthy children, aged 12-36 months, attending group childcare settings, participated in the study. Each child's sleep was measured at home with actigraphy over three nights. Saliva samples were collected by the mothers at bedtime and within 30 min of awakening. In addition, both the mother and the daycare teacher rated the child's behavioral difficulties and negative emotionality. It was found that children with more fragmented sleep ...
Source: Developmental Psychobiology - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anat Scher, Wendy A. Hall, Anat Zaidman-Zait, Joanne Weinberg Source Type: journals

Race and ethnicity as factors in mental health service use among veterans with PTSDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) either do not seek treatment or participate in treatment only episodically. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study using Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data to determine rates of mental health care use and to examine whether the odds of service use varied by race or ethnicity. They examined all veterans with a new diagnosis of PTSD during a one-year period. Analyses used logistic or negative binomial regression with generalized estimating equations to measure associations of race and ethnicity with mental health service use after contro...
Source: Journal of Traumatic Stress - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michele R. Spoont, James Hodges, Maureen Murdoch, Sean Nugent Source Type: journals

Disseminating Incredible Years series early-intervention programs: Integrating and sustaining services between school and homeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Incredible Years (IY) Series is a well-established set of parent, teacher, and child programs for treating and preventing conduct problems and promoting social competence and emotional regulation in young children. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of this evidence-based series within the context of a prevention science framework. We first summarize the conceptual grounding of the intervention series including the risk and protective factors that are targeted by IY. We then review the extensive literature demonstrating the impact of the various programs. The bulk of this article, however, focus...
Source: Psychology in the Schools - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carolyn Webster-Stratton, Keith C. Herman Source Type: journals

Ontogeny and phyletic size change in living and fossil lemursEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lemurs are notable for encompassing the range of body-size variation for all primates past and present - close to four orders of magnitude. Benefiting from the phylogenetic proximity of subfossil lemurs to smaller-bodied living forms, we employ allometric data from the skull to probe the ontogenetic bases of size differentiation and morphological diversity across these clades. Building upon prior pairwise comparisons between sister taxa, we performed the first clade-wide analyses of craniomandibular growth allometries in 359 specimens from 10 lemuroids and 176 specimens from 8 indrioids. Ontogenetic trajectories for extant...
Source: American Journal of Primatology - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew J. Ravosa, Ashley N. Daniel Source Type: journals

Posttraumatic stress disorder, guilt, depression, and meaning in life among military veteransEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Veterans of various service eras (N = 174) completed an Internet survey about combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depression, guilt, and meaning in life. Results of a hierarchical regression indicated that younger age; higher levels of combat exposure, depression, and guilt; and lower meaning in life predicted greater PTSD severity. The interaction between meaning in life and depression also was significant, with a stronger inverse relation between meaning and PTSD at lower levels of depression. Meaning in life may be an important treatment concern for veterans with PTSD symptoms, particularly a...
Source: Journal of Traumatic Stress - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gina P. Owens, Michael F. Steger, Allison A. Whitesell, Catherine J. Herrera Source Type: journals

Mutual influence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and chronic pain among injured accident survivors: A longitudinal studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The relationship between acute stress disorder (ASD), posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSD), and chronic pain was investigated in a longitudinal study of injured accident victims (N = 323, 64.7% men). Assessments took place 5 days (T1), 6 (T2) months, and 12 (T3) months postaccident. Relations between pain and posttraumatic stress symptoms were tested by structural equation modeling. Subjects diagnosed with full or subsyndromal PTSD at T2 and at T3 (14 and 19%) reported significantly higher pain intensity. Cross-lagged panel analysis yielded a mutual maintenance of pain intensity and ASD or PTSD symptoms across T2....
Source: Journal of Traumatic Stress - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: J. Jenewein, L. Wittmann, H. Moergeli, J. Creutzig, U. Schnyder Source Type: journals

Linking prevention science and social and emotional learning: The Oregon Resiliency ProjectEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews the contributions of the Oregon Resiliency Project, an effort to enhance positive social-emotional development of children and youth through social and emotional learning (SEL). The project was launched in 2001 as a collaborative effort between faculty and graduate student researchers at the University of Oregon. The primary aims have included training, outreach, and research in school-based mental health promotion. One of the major contributions has been the development of the Strong Kids programs, SEL curricula designed to be used by educators and mental health personnel at the pre-K through Grade 12...
Source: Psychology in the Schools - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kenneth W. Merrell Source Type: journals

Genes and JobsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) comes into full effect this Saturday, November 21st. Employers need to take note, and employees should be aware of their rights.Congress passed GINA almost unanimously, and President Bush signed it on May 21, 2008. Described by the late Senator Ted Kennedy as "the first civil rights bill of the new century of the life sciences," GINA protects individuals from genetic information discrimination in health insurance and employment. A detailed description can be found here.Even some well-informed commentators seem to have missed this landmark piece of legislation. So ...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pete Shanks Tags: Law and Crime Media Politics Social Life Work andrew sullivan commentators criminal background check criminal background check policy daily dish discrimination act dna testing employment employment practice full effect geneti Source Type: consumer

A final friendship disappointment?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
QUESTIONDear Irene,My friend has been going through marriage problems ever since I've known her (13 years now). I have been there for her when she needed someone to talk to. When the problems got too big to deal with, I suggested counseling since I didn't want their marriage problems to affect the friendship that I have with her husband too and that my husband has with them.Now, my dilemma is that I personally have gone through a very stressful period in my life with the loss of several family members. I really don't want to talk about all her stresses anymore! I know she feels hurt by this. But the main ...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Stress 13 years anger apology daughter death dilemma disappoint family members female friend friendship friendship expert funeral grief grieving insensitive insensitivity irene Irene S. Levine joke Source Type: consumer

"Why Are There Two Turkeys?" Happy Holidays for StepfamiliesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Stepfamilies are under extra stress as the holidays--with their pressure cooker of "family" expectations--get underway. While they now outnumber first families in the U.S., many stepfamily members report feeling second-best and misunderstood when our thoughts turn to turkey, yultide, and latkahs. This is in large part because so many of us unrealistically expect stepfamilies to be just like first families--super close, ultra-cohesive, and happy, happy, happy.Sure, plenty of stepfamilies are doing just fine. But knowing that even first family life isn't one Hallmark moment after another can take some of the pressure off, an...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. Tags: Parenting Relationships Self-Help Christmas divorce hanukkah holiday stress in families holiday tips for stepfamilies Patricia Papernow remarriage remarriage with children step family step mother stepfamily stepfamily advice Source Type: consumer

You again! The role of significant others in our social interactionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some patterns in our lives tend to repeat. You may meet a new person, and suddenly find that you talk as though you were back in college with them. Or, you may meet a new romantic interest, and you speak to them as if they were an old significant other. Or you my have a boss and you find yourself talking to him as if he was your father.What is going on?It is hard to have to treat each new person in your life fresh. After all, there must be some value to all of the experience you have had with other people you have met.Research by Susan Andersen, Serena Chen, and their colleagues suggests that we do use ou...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Art Markman, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Social Life boss colleagues double edged sword experience recycling romantic interest significant other significant others social knowledge social settings susan andersen Source Type: consumer

If You Want Intimacy, Then Find Someone Who....Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One day in class we were discussing INTIMACY in romantic relationships, and one of the women made the comment, “I just can’t figure out why men don’t want to be intimate.” In response (obviously speaking before thinking), a young man in the back of the room blurted out: “We do too want to be intimate, but you women just won’t put out.” Common mistaken notion --- that the roots of intimacy are to be found in sexual behavior. It is no doubt accurate to say that intimacy and sex are connected, but the nature of this connection is not what many may suspect. It can probably best be captured by this sum...
Source: Psychology Today Relationships Center - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John R. Buri, Ph.D. Tags: Relationships couple suggestions desires inclinations intimacy Love; Marriage; Relationships; Intimacy men and women mistaken notion nbsp no doubt old men personal baggage romantic relationships roots sex linkage sexual behav Source Type: consumer

Global shape mediates the perception of the parts of a picture, not vice versa: comments on "Ellipses on the surface of a picture" by Hammad et al (2008).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19911639 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maniatis LM Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Darwin illusion: evolution in a blink of the eye.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19911638 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jenkins R, Wiseman R Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Amodal completion is not completed only behind the occluder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We investigated amodal completion with changes in two parameters: figure orientation, and the shape of the occluding and occluded figures. First, Markovich's [2002, Visual Mathematics 4(1); http://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/fila] figure was presented in vertical, horizontal, and diagonal orientations. The results supported Markovich's finding of amodal completion by smooth continuity and symmetry. Amodal completion was also affected by orientation: symmetrical shape tended to appear when the pattern had vertical axis whilst smooth continuity appeared in diagonal orientation. Next, the shape of the exposed side of the oc...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Takashima M, Fujii T, Shiina K Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Illusory movement of dotted lines.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When oblique rows of black and white dots drifted horizontally across a mid-grey surround, the perceived direction of motion was shifted to be almost parallel to the dotted lines and was often nearly orthogonal to the real motion. The reason is that the black/white contrast signals between adjacent dots along the length of the line are stronger than black/grey or white/grey contrast signals across the line, and the motion is computed as a vector sum of local contrast-weighted motion signals. PMID: 19911636 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ito H, Anstis S, Cavanagh P Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Listeners discern affective variation in computer-generated musical sounds.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We carried out two experiments to test the relationship between real-time perception of structural change in stylistically unusual musical sounds, and perception of its affect (arousal and valence). Computer music was used because of its unfamiliarity and our capacity to control it in ecologically appropriate ways. In experiment 1, thirteen participants unselected for musical training participated in tasks to detect segmentation and changes in affect. Changes in affect occurred upon detection of segmentation; but not all algorithmically distinct segments conveyed distinct affect. Short segments followed by long segment...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bailes F, Dean RT Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Sequential stream segregation affects localisation of diotic tones among tones with time-varying interaural time difference.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, I examined how sequential stream segregation contributes to the detection of diotic tones among tones with time-varying interaural time differences (ITDs). Target (T) and distractor (D) tones, and a silent duration (-) formed a sequence (DTD -) and this sequence was presented repeatedly. A frequency difference was introduced between target and distractor tones. The distractor tones were also given time-varying ITDs to produce a percept of smooth auditory motion along the interaural axis. In half of the trials, the target tones were not given time-varying ITDs, and thus were diotically presented. The task of ...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kawabe T Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Do left and right matter for haptic recognition of familiar objects?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two experiments were carried out to examine the effects of dominant right versus non-dominant left exploration hand and left versus right object orientation on haptic recognition of familiar objects. In experiment 1, participants named 48 familiar objects in two blocks. There was no dominant-hand advantage to naming objects haptically and there was no interaction between exploration hand and object orientation. Furthermore, priming of naming was not reduced by changes of either object orientation or exploration hand. To test whether these results were attributable to a failure to encode object orientation and explorati...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Craddock M, Lawson R Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Aging and the discrimination of object weight.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A single experiment was carried out to evaluate the ability of younger and older observers to discriminate object weights. A 2-alternative forced-choice variant of the method of constant stimuli was used to obtain difference thresholds for lifted weight for twelve younger (mean age = 21.5 years) and twelve older (mean age = 71.3 years) adults. The standard weight was 100 g, whereas the test weights ranged from 85 to 115 g. The difference thresholds of the older observers were 57.6% higher than those of the younger observers: the average difference thresholds were 10.4% and 6.6% of the standard for the older and younger...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Norman JF, Norman HF, Swindle JM, Jennings LR, Bartholomew AN Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Processing Navon letters can make wines taste different.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous work has demonstrated that providing a verbal description of a wine impairs its recognition (Melcher and Schooler, 1996 Journal of Memory and Language 35 231-245). It was proposed that the effect was due to disruption of the perceptual memory by the verbalisation process as seen in face recognition. A similar impairment can be observed in face recognition after reading the small (local) letters of Navon stimuli. Here, it is suggested that the effect in wine recognition is due to a change in the processing style following the provision of a verbal description. In the current experiment we investigated whether t...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lewis MB, Seeley J, Miles C Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Kicking to bigger uprights: field goal kicking performance influences perceived size.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present evidence that the perceived height and width of an American-football field goal post relates to the perceiver's kicking performance. Participants who made more successful kicks perceived the field goal posts to be farther apart and perceived the crossbar to be closer to the ground compared with participants who made fewer kicks. Interestingly, the current results show perceptual effects related to performance only after kicking the football but not before kicking. We also found that the types of performance errors influenced specific aspects of perception. The more kicks that were missed left or right of the tar...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Witt JK, Dorsch TE Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

The visual search of an illusory figure: a comparison between 6-month-old infants and adults.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of the present study was to investigate how perceptual binding and selective attention operate during infants' and adults' visual search of an illusory figure. An eye-tracker system was used to test adults and infants in two conditions: illusory and non-illusory (real). In the illusory condition, a Kanizsa triangle was embedded among distractor pacmen which did not generate illusory contours. In the non-illusory condition, a real triangle was included in the same pacmen's display. The results showed that adults detected both the Kanizsa and the real figure automatically and without focal attention (experiment 1...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bulf H, Valenza E, Simion F Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Visual globes, celestial spheres, and the perception of straight and parallel lines.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Helmholtz's famous distorted chessboard pattern has been used to make the point that perception of the straightness of peripherally viewed lines is not always veridical. Helmholtz showed that the curved lines of his chessboard pattern appear to be straight when viewed from a critical distance and he argued that, at this distance, the contours stimulated particular 'direction circles' in the field of fixation. We measured the magnitude of the distortion of peripherally viewed contours, and found that the straightness of elongated contours is indeed misperceived in the direction reported by Helmholtz, but that the magnit...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rogers B, Rogers C Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

What are the uncurved lines in our visual field? A fresh look at Helmholtz's checkerboard.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What are the uncurved lines in our visual field? To answer this question, Helmholtz developed a geometrical model of line-curvature perception, and demonstrated it with his famous checkerboard pattern with pin-cushion distortion. He claimed it looked perfectly regular when viewed monocularly at close range while fixating the centre. Recently, doubts have been expressed whether this demonstration actually works. We tested twenty monocular, stationary observers who could adjust the distortion of a checkerboard pattern over a large range, from barrel-shaped to pin-cushion-shaped. Their task was to adjust the curvature of ...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oomes AH, Koenderink JJ, van Doorn AJ, de Ridder H Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving the dominance of others.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although gaze direction and face shape have each been shown to affect perceptions of the dominance of others, the question whether gaze direction and face shape have independent main effects on perceptions of dominance, and whether these effects interact, has not yet been studied. To investigate this issue, we compared dominance ratings of faces with masculinised shapes and direct gaze, masculinised shapes and averted gaze, feminised shapes and direct gaze, and feminised shapes and averted gaze. While faces with direct gaze were generally rated as more dominant than those with averted gaze, this effect of gaze directio...
Source: Perception - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Main JC, Jones BC, DeBruine LM, Little AC Tags: Perception Source Type: journals

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