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Latitude, digit ratios, and Allen's and Bergmann's rules: a comment on Loehlin, McFadden, Medland, and Martin (2006)
(Germany: Springer., 2007-04)
Comments on an article by J. C. Loehlin, D. McFadden, S. E. Medland and N. G. Martin (see record 2007-07455-014). The authors investigated the relationship between latitude and digit ratio (2D:4D). Like digit ratio, height ...
Sexy thoughts: Effects of sexual cognitions on testosterone, cortisol, and arousal in women.
(2010)
Previous research suggests that sexual stimuli increase testosterone (T) in women and shows inconsistent effects of sexual arousal on cortisol (C), but effects of cognitive aspects of arousal, rather than behaviors or ...
Social modulation of hormones
(Guilford Press, 2010)
Though it is an advance in many ways to conceptualize the mind as operating with biological and socioenvironmental spheres, contextualization of the mind's function should not end there. In this chapter, I specifically ...
Sexual Trauma, Substance Abuse, and Treatment Success in a Sample of African American Women Who Smoke Crack Cocaine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship among sexual trauma, severity of substance use, and treatment success for African American women who smoke crack cocaine. Using a convenience sample of ...
Narcissism in Midlife: Longitudinal Changes in and Correlates of Women's Narcissistic Personality Traits
(AuthorWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2012-10)
We examined changes in and correlates of 3 kinds of narcissism—hypersensitivity, willfulness, and autonomy—during middle adulthood. Few studies have examined narcissistic personality traits beyond young adulthood, and none ...
A Bilingual “Neighborhood Club”: Intervening with Children Exposed to Urban Violence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-04-18)
Mental health practitioners have offered relatively little in response to the pervasive community violence faced by many children living in impoverished neighborhoods. The “neighborhood club” is a school-based, short-term, ...
The Relationships of Intergroup Contact to Social Identity and Political Consciousness
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC., 1990)
The impact of three forms of intergroup contact (Mexican descent, other minority, and Anglo) on the social identities and political attitudes of a national sample of native-born persons of Mexican descent was examined. ...
Multiple partners are associated with higher testosterone in North American men and women
(Netherlands: Elsevier Science., 2007-03)
Previous research has shown that being partnered is associated with lower testosterone (T) in men and women. To address how multiple partners may be associated with T, we examined 47 men and 48 women who were single, ...
Context and strategy in acquiring temporal connectives
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-03)
There has been considerable debate over the role of comprehension strategies in the acquisition of temporal connectives. This study examined the role of caluse logic and interpretational strategies in the acquisition of ...