"Primate research, family politics, and social policy: Transforming 'cads' into 'dads' ": Reply.

Responds to the comments of S. Sperling (see record 1994-17265-001), J. Belsky (see record 1994-17245-001), V. Phares (see record 1994-17261-001), and M. E. Lamb (see record 1994-17257-001) on the work of L. B. Silverstein (see record 1994-17264-001) on evolutionary biology and human paternal behavior, father involvement, father absence, and biological determinism. Silverstein asserts that her overriding goal was to dramatize how extrascientific factors (e.g., political ideology) shape the construction of scientific knowledge. It is argued that the experience of nurturing and caring for young children has the power to change the cultural construction of masculinity into something less coercive and oppressive. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Got a minute? Attentional limits revisited.

Responds to comments by R. C. Tees (see record 1991-03035-001), J. G. Adair (see record 1991-03013-001), J. E. Grusec (see record 1991-03021-001), K. Danziger (see record 1991-03016-001), L. P. Mos (see record 1991-03027-001), H. J. Stam (see record 1991-03033-001), and V. Vikis-Freilbergs (see record 1991-03039-001) on W. Thorngate's (see record 1991-03036-001) contention that the overproduction of psychological literature will lead to fragmentation of the discipline. As the works of psychologists proliterate, their scientific truth may capture less attention than their practical importance or personal interest. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

And binding nature fast in fate, left free the human will.

Suggests that the papers by B. D. Slife (see record 1995-13451-001), M. Gergen (see record 1995-14294-001), R. N. Williams (see record 1995-12851-001), and M. S. Richardson (see record 1995-14311-001) demonstrated no simple solution to the free will (FW) problem. How humans achieve some limited exercise of FW in a world of nonagentic, coercive forces remains unclear, especially as human nature and lives represent complex phenomena in which the person who exercises FW is anything but omnipotent, ahistorical, self-contained, and acultural. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Data transformations, power, and skew: A rebuttal to Levine and Dunlap.

Criticizes the D. W. Levine and W. P. Dunlap (see record 1983-24833-001) rejoinder to the present author's (see record 1983-20171-001) article on curvilinear transformation of the dependent variable. Levine and Dunlap's (1983) claims are based on a failure to distinguish theoretical models from empirical data and a misconception about implications from the fact that the t test is a uniformly most powerful unbiased test. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rehabilitation services as ideology: A response to Stubbins, Coudroglou, and Berkowitz.

Responds to the comments of J. Stubbins (see record 1985-31779-001), A. Coudroglou (see record 1985-31754-001), and E. Berkowitz (see record 1985-31749-001) on needed reforms of the rehabilitation service system. With emphasis on Stubbins's comments, it is argued that Stubbins makes sweeping unsupported generalizations and that he overlooks the strengths derived from the legislative process, the disability rights movement, and rehabilitation research. Although reform is needed, it is suggested that it will come through informed inquiry and a changing environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Revealed, concealed, congealed, curdled: A reply to Pomichalek, Lamb, and Denner.

Replies to M. Pomichalek's (see record 1992-19269-001), S. Lamb's (see record 1992-19263-001), and B. Denner's (see record 1992-19257-001) remarks on P. Cushman's comments (see record 1991-17982-001) on D. Stern's (1985) study. Cushman defends constructionist research by maintaining that it can acknowledge and interpret ideology and thereby the moral framework in which the study is embedded. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Peromyscus papers: Through a glass, darkly.

Comments on the article by J. M. Joffe (see record 1974-06687-001) and the article by R. J. Smith (see record 1990-57143-001), both of which frame a discussion of behaviorism and reactions to the theories of J. B. Watson (e.g., 1925) as a political insurgency and a trial. The present author remarks that although one has been told how often it is done, it is nevertheless alarming to see how easily history can be rewritten to reflect the dogma of the party in power. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to Deutsch and Green.

Replies to the comments of F. Deutsch (see record 1986-26175-001) and B. L. Green (see record 1986-26216-001) on the present authors' (see record 1986-10770-001) aggressive interchange with B. P. Dohrenwend and P. E. Shrout (see record 1986-10765-001) about confounding problems in studies on stress. It is suggested that Deutsch has joined in the fray and that Green has raised an interesting issue (i.e., the relative predictive power of objective and subjective measures of stressful events). (7 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Is free will a process or a content: Both? Neither? Are we free to affirm a position on this question?

Comments on the views on free will (FW) offered by B. D. Slife (see record 1995-13451-001), M. Gergen (see record 1995-14294-001), R. N. Williams (see record 1995-12851-001), M. S. Richardson (see record 1995-14311-001), and G. S. Howard (see record 1995-13446-001) in light of the classical definition of FW as being capable of doing otherwise. It is argued that FW interpretations differ markedly depending on whether they are viewed as due to a process or to contents within some process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The possibility of possibility.

Comments that B. D. Slife (see record 1995-13451-001), M. Gergen (see record 1995-14294-001), R. N. Williams (see record 1995-12851-001), and M. S. Richardson (see record 1995-14311-001) all seem to suggest that the contextless nature of the traditional conception of free will is problematic. Although each author attempts to contextualize this traditional conception, many of their explanations reveal that the underlying problem remains. It is suggested that a radically new assumption of time, such as Heidegger's temporality, is necessary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Some broader issues: Clinical relevance, gender sensitivity, and psychometrics.

Responds to comments by G. B. Spanier (see record 1989-17637-001) and L. Thompson (see record 1989-17646-001) on the present authors' (see record 1989-17603-001) evaluation of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Replies to Danet, Lubin, and Hurvitz.

Responds to comments on Shostrom's (see record 1990-55846-001) work on televised group psychotherapy by B. N. Danet (see record 1990-55869-001); B. Lubin (see record 1990-55870-001); and N. Hurvitz (see record 1990-55871-001). Topics discussed include (1) the equivalence of focused audiovisual feedback vs televised "open' group therapy, (2) the .50 level of "significance' reported by Shostrom, and (3) the preference for educational vs commercial TV presentation. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Some facets of consistency: Replies to Epstein, Funder, and Bem.

Identifies convergences and substantive differences in the comments made by S. Epstein (see record 1983-23443-001), D. C. Funder (see record 1983-30290-001), and D. J. Bem (see record 1984-04001-001) regarding the present authors' (see record 1983-05642-001) reanalysis of some issues and proposals in the search for cross-situational consistency in social behavior. (32 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Separable effects of factors on speed and accuracy: Memory scanning, lexical decision, and choice tasks.

Contends that experimental factors selectively influencing serial mental processes will have additive effects on RT and log percent correct. Further, if such factors have additive effects on RT in one experiment, they will also have additive effects in an experiment with different error rates. The contention is illustrated in a memory-scanning task reported by B. L. Lively (see record 1973-06015-001), a choice task reported by S. P. Shwartz et al (see record 1978-11552-001), and a lexical decision task reported by R. E. Schuberth et al (see record 1982-00388-001). Findings show that factors had additive effects on RT, only if they had additive effects on log percent correct, except for the speed-payoff condition in Lively's experiment. It is suggested that in this condition, the process durations were not stochastically independent. Four appendices illustrate the calculations. (36 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

We agree: A rejoinder from Penk and Robinowitz to Sutker and Allain.

In response to P. B. Sutker and A. N. Allain (see record 1981-21988-001), the present authors (see record 1980-12694-001) assert that the issue of voluntarism in drug treatment programs will not be resolved by rhetoric but by data. Methodological implications are noted. (5 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Attention/likelihood: Reply to Hintzman (1994).

D. L. Hintzman's (see record 1994-24278-001) criticism of K. Kim and M. Glanzer's (see record 1993-32210-001) theory on recognition memory consists of 2 points: An equation of attention/likelihood theory has been incorrectly written and the likelihood ratios of the theory can be replaced by another, preferable transformation. Both of these points are discussed and rebutted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Biofeedback, science, and training.

Responds to P. A. Norris's (see record 1987-01962-001) criticism of the present author's (see record 1986-11198-001) article on biofeedback by suggesting that Norris appears to be restating the present author's position—that biofeedback by itself is neither necessary nor sufficient to accomplish anything but is a technique to be used in conjunction with other approaches to meet certain therapeutic goals. (4 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Health promotion and coronary heart disease: A rejoinder.

Replies to the contention of R. C. Lefebvre (see record 1986-20193-001) that the review by the present author (see record 1985-12441-001) of the diet/heart controversy is one-sided and will induce uncertainty. Although there is no disagreement that preventive efforts should be supported, concern is expressed about Lefebvre's suggestion that a discussion of inconsistent scientific data should be avoided. (9 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)