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The Academic Achievement of African American Students During Early Adolescence: An Examination of Multiple Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-06)
This study examined the effects of multiple risk, promotive, and protective factors on three achievement-related measures (i.e., grade point average, number of absences, and math achievement test scores) for African American ...
Testosterone and partnering are linked via relationship status for women and 'relationship orientation' for men
(2010-11)
Cross-cultural evidence links pair bonding and testosterone (T). We investigated what factors account for this link, how casual relationships are implicated, and whether gender/sex moderates these patterns in a North ...
Testosterone levels in women and men who are single, in long-distance relationships, or some-city relationships.
(Netherlands: Elsevier Science., 2007-02)
Research points to an association between testosterone (T) and partnering in some women and men, and this association has been interpreted as an effect of either relationship status (i.e. differences in relationship status ...
The antecedents of women's crack cocaine abuse: Family substance abuse, sexual abuse, depression and illicit drug use
(Elsevier, 1993)
Young African-American women are the fastest growing group of crack cocaine users in the United States. Despite this increase, relatively little is known about women who use crack cocaine and the possible reasons for their ...
Sexual Identity and Substance Use Among Undergraduate Students
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This study examined the association between sexual identity and use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) among college undergraduate students. A survey regarding AOD use was administered to a random sample of 3607 undergraduate ...
Educational Experiences and Shifts in Group Consciousness: Studying Women
(Sage Publications, 1999)
This study takes a multifaceted approach to group consciousness. The authors assessed changes in women’s feminist consciousness due to their exposure to feminism through women’s studies. Feminist consciousness was measured ...
Grip Strength and Digit Ratios Are Not Correlated in Women
(2007-04)
Fink et al. (2006) have reported that men with higher grip strength (GS) have lower digit ratios (2D:4D), interpreting this as evidence for organizational effects of prenatal androgens on strength. In this study, I attempted ...
Chewing gum has large effects on salivary testosterone, estradiol, and secretory immunoglobulin A assays in women and men.
(2010-02)
Salivary assays are increasingly prevalent in behavioral research, and chewing gum is a widely used sialogogue. Methodological investigations into sialogogues have provided mixed results, and few of these have incorporated ...
Human Sexuality (Second Edition)
(2008-04)
The article reviews the book "Human Sexuality," Second Edition, by Simon LeVay and Sharon M. Valente.