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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 ...
Middle Aging in Women: Patterns of Personality Change from the 30s to the 50s
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
This three-sample study focused on changes in four key features of women's personalities (identity, generativity, confident power, and concern about aging) over the course of middle age. Based on women's retrospective and ...
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 ...
Advice about Life Plans from Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings in Always-Married and Divorced Families during Late Adolescence
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-12)
The frequency of advice about life plans that older adolescents in always-married and divorced families received from mothers, fathers, and siblings was examined. Also, a pattern-analytic approach that grouped adolescents ...
Does it pay to move from welfare to work?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002)
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act requires welfare recipients to lookfor work and has made it more difficult for nonworking recipients to remain on the welfare rolls. In addition,the ...
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 ...