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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 ...
Referential redundancy and the integration of verbal information
(Elsevier, 1976-01)
In two experiments, college students read pairs of messages describing an actor's portrayal of a particular emotion. They were then asked to identify the one of 24 target photographs about which each message-pair was ...
A disposition-behavior congruity model of perceived freedom
(Elsevier, 1977-07)
Three experiments were conducted to test a disposition-behavior congruity model of perceived freedom. The model was applied to attributions of freedom to actors who possess one of several dispositions and who can choose a ...
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 ...
The accuracy of verbal reports about the effects of stimuli on evaluations and behavior
(American Sociological Association, 1978)
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 ...
Book Review: The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism, and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa. Helen Malson.
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Proximal Peer-Level Effects of a Small-Group Selected Prevention on Aggression in Elementary School Children: An Investigation of the Peer Contagion Hypothesis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-06)
Examined peer contagion in small group, selected prevention programming over one school year. Participants were boys and girls in grades 3 (46 groups, 285 students) and 6 (36 groups, 219 students) attending school in ...
The amygdala is essential for the development of neuronal plasticity in the medial geniculate nucleus during auditory fear conditioning in rats
(2001-03)
The medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (MGN) and the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) are critical components of the neural circuit that mediates auditory fear conditioning. Several studies indicate that ...