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Helpless behavior
(Elsevier, 1993-03)
In the present research, we investigated helpless behavior and the responses it elicits from others. Study One used the act-frequency approach to develop a self-report measure of prototypically helpless behaviors. In a ...
On perhaps becoming what you had previously despised: Psychologists as prescribers of medication
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-09)
The authors contend that organized psychology's efforts to gain limited prescriptive privileges may be misguided. The modification of psychology's traditional scope of practice may produce harm in the form of lessened ...
Explanatory style of schizophrenic and depressed outpatients
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-10)
We administered an Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) to several outpatient groups—paranoid schizophrenics ( n = 32), nonparanoid schizophrenics ( n = 30), and depressives ( n = 30)—as well as to a normal comparison ...
Effects of estrogen agonists on amphetamine-stimulated striatal dopamine release
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-08)
Based upon the observation that estrogen acts in the striatum to rapidly modulate dopamine (DA) neural transmission and DA-mediated behaviors, it has been postulated that these effects of estrogen are mediated by a specific, ...
Lesions of the central nucleus of the amygdala I: Effects on taste reactivity, taste aversion learning and sodium appetite
(Elsevier, 1993-12-31)
Bilateral damage to the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeAX) in the rat blunts need-induced NaCl intake and abolishes daily need-free NaCl intake when measured with a two-bottle test. Such a deficit could be the result ...
Excitatory and inhibitory amino acid binding sites in human dentate nucleus
(Elsevier, 1991-09-27)
Autoradiography of excitatory and inhibitory amino acid binding sites in human dentate nuclei indicated virtually no binding to N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) or [gamma]-aminobutyric acidB (GABAB) binding sites, and a low ...
Parents' gender-based attitudes toward marital roles and child rearing: Development and validation of new measures
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
Factor analysis of 18 Likert-type items dealing with gender stereotypes about family roles was conducted and yielded two measures: one focused on marital roles and one focussed on child rearing. Respondents were parents ...
Effects of stimulus level on nonspectral frequency discrimination by human subjects
(Elsevier, 1994-08)
Frequency difference limens were determined as a function of reference-stimulus level for pulsatile electrical stimuli in 5 postlingually deaf human subjects with Nucleus-22 cochlear implants and for sinusoidally ...
Expansion strategies of a mutual help organization
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-04)