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Parent perceptions and attributions for children's math achievement
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-09)
From junior high school on, girls report lower estimations of their math ability and express more negative attitudes about math than do boys, despite equivalent performance in grades. Parents show this same sex-typed bias. ...
Essentialism, Culture, and Beliefs About Gender Among the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu, India
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender beliefs of the Aravanis, a transgender community in Tamil Nadu. Gender transgression and gender transformation (attempts to change gender) tasks were used to examine ...
Anger of women incest survivors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-04)
Adult women survivors of incest (n = 68) were compared to other women (n = 93) with respect to several questionnaire measures of manifest anger. The vast majority of the research participants were white, middle class, ...
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-05)
On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-03)
Most attempts to craft a definition of disease seem to have tackled two tasks simultaneously: 1) trying to create a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria that correspond to medical usage of the word disease and 2) ...
War-Related Trauma and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adult Kosovar Refugees
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-04)
Since 1999, almost 16,000 Kosovar refugees have entered the United States. Few studies have investigated trauma and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in this population. We conducted a caseworker-assisted ...
Longitudinal patterns of care for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-10)
This study assessed patterns of mental health service use over time by patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — as compared with patients with schizophrenia and major depression — with emphasis on the persistence ...
Literature-based discovery by lexical statistics
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
We report experiments that use lexical statistics, such as word frequency counts, to discover hidden connections in the medical literature. Hidden connections are those that are unlikely to be found by examination of ...
The potential of social indicators: Minimum conditions for impact at the national level as suggested by a study of the use of ‘social indicators’ 73
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-03)
Empirical evidence is presented which suggests that the use of social indicators among upper level government officials in the United States is minimal at present. Further, the level of use is not likely to be increased ...
Gender Differences in Interest and Knowledge Acquisition: The United States, Taiwan, and Japan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
The relationship between interest and knowledge was investigated in a representative sample of 11th grade students from cultures that differ in the strength of their gender-role stereotypes and their endorsement of ...