Critical notes on "temporality in human action."

Argues that although J. E. Faulconer and R. N. Williams (see record 1986-13304-001) used Heidegger's ontology of time to illuminate a few of the basic flaws in human sciences that are based on positivist or crude historicist metaphysics, their hope that this philosophy of temporality will rescue psychology is ill founded. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Trauma and temporality.

In this article a series of vignettes is presented illustrating the author's thesis that an essential dimension of psychological trauma is the breaking up of the unifying thread of temporality. It is proposed, and illustrated, that clinical features usually described as dissociation and multiplicity can be understood in terms of trauma's impact in disrupting the sense of being-in-time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Aristotle, time, and temporality.

The view of time that has dominated our western tradition and formed the basis of explanations in contemporary social science is essentially the one formulated by Aristotle. Robinson (1989) rightly observes that the writings of Aristotle were so comprehensive and insightful that much of our western tradition can be seen as reaction to or modification of his work. This is perhaps more true in psychology than other scientific disciplines, and perhaps nowhere better illustrated than in our reliance on the Aristotlean notion of time. In this paper I will examine Aristotle's treatment of time and indicate some important conceptual implications of this view manifest in our psychological theorizing. The notion of temporality as developed in the works of Martin Heidegger (1962) and others in the post-modernist tradition provides an alternative perspective on time which impacts on the practice of social science. Finally the paper will briefly describe some of the impact, showing particularly how it both affirms the essential Aristotlean insight and yet provides an alternative to his conception of time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on citations.

Corrects data in D. L. Schaeffer's article (1977) on publication and citation rates in Canadian universities: The Memorial University of Newfoundland does have a Ph.D. program and is not a "Maritime" university. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on recidivism.

Responds to comments by R. W. Jeffery and R. R. Wing (1983), J. W. Osberg (1983), and J. O. Prochaska (1983) concerning Schachter's (see record 1982-30809-001) study of self-treatment for smoking and obesity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on Harlow.

Comments on "Nature of love--simplified" by Harlow and Suomi (see record 1970-15730-001). The comment notes that Harlow and Suomi omit a reference to Karl Bühler (1930), who discovered that very young crying infants could be quieted as well by contacts with a hot water bottle or soft cushion as by the mother's caresses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on Campbell.

Comments on "Reforms as experiments" by D. T. Campbell (American Psychologist, 1969, Vol 24, 404-429, see record 1969-17253-001). Campbell's suggestions for an extension of experimental thinking into our legislatures could be the most important contribution that any psychologist has made to our society. Why not form an APA committee to confer with our colleagues in the social sciences to see whether institutions can be proposed to maximize the experimental approach to legislation? (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hormonal action in human cervix--II. Specific progestogen binding proteins in human cervix

Some properties of specific progestogen binding activity in the human cervix are described. High cytosol affinity was observed for progesterone and synthetic progestagens, but not for corticosteroids or norethindrone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, chlormadinone acetate, progesterone, 5alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione, norethindrone acetate, 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone, cortisol, and estradiol. Progesterone binding in cytosols with high concentrations of CBG-like contaminants had a dissociation rate constant of 6.9 X 10(-5)s(-1). Ka values were similar for binding sites throughout the cervix, with concentrations being highest in the region around the columnar epithelium. Concentrations of binding sites per mg DNA were similar in the columnar epithelium and stroma, but higher in the squamous epithelium. Progesterone binding to endometrial tissue was greater than that for the corresponding cervix. Mean concentrations per mg were markedly higher during the proliferative phase than the secretory phase of the menstrual cycle, though this difference in terms of concentrations per mg DNA was significant only for cervical cytosols.     

More on Herrnstein's hyperbola.

Responds to E. Ubell's (see record 1984-05704-001) transformation of Herrnstein's mathematical statement of the law of effect from a hyperbolic to a linear function. This transformation of the relationship between response and reinforcement allows the law to be stated in terms of period rather than frequency. The present author argues that the linear and hyperbolic forms are not statistically interchangeable. (6 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on Professional Schools.

Provides additional information relevant to an article by the current authors (see record 1978-04088-001) that described the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), with some historical notes on the professional school movement. This article notes the many "firsts" in this new movement, including developments at Adelphi University, the University of Montreal's Institute of Psychology, the University of Denver School of Professional Psychology, and the South Florida School of Professional Psychology in addition to California School of Professional Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on top-ranked departments.

N. S. Endler et al (see record 1979-26949-001) incorrectly reported that 12 schools included in their top 82 US psychology departments in terms of total citations were not included in K. D. Roose and C. J. Andersen's (1970) rating of graduate departments. Actually, 19 schools were omitted in Roose and Andersen's ratings. The 7 schools Endler et al omitted are identified. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on undergraduate degrees.

Since the publication of figures taken from the Statistical Abstract of the United States in the American Psychologist (1957, 12, 229-230), the writer received a number of requests for reprints which were not available. In order to satisfy these inquiries and to make the data more helpful, he has extended the table, which originally included only the years 1949-54, up to and including 1958. In the original Comment, the writer speculated on the reasons why the number of undergraduate degrees in psychology had dropped from 1950 to 1954. To the advocates of undergraduate specialization in psychology, it will be reassuring to note that the bachelor or first level degree, in point of numbers of men and women receiving it, has been on the rise ever since 1955 when it reached its lowest point. The number of master or second level degree recipients reached its lowest point in 1956 and has also risen since then but has not approached the peak year of 1951. The number of doctorates awarded since 1952 has remained more constant, especially since 1952, than the numbers receiving the first and second level degrees. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on the PsyD.

Responds to L. Waters's (1977) criticisms of D. R. Peterson's (see record 1977-30158-001) article advocating the PsyD, rather than the PhD, as the preferred professional degree. The PhD requirements for extensive work in research, statistics, and foreign language are omitted in the PsyD program in favor of work in biological aspects of psychological problems, professional development, behavior therapy, and other areas. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on adolescent pregnancy.

Responds to L. Silka's (see record 1982-30189-001) and P. Williams's (see record 1982-30129-001) comments on D. Baumrind's (see record 1982-01029-001) article concerning teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and birthrate. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on the Hawthorne effect.

Comments on D. Bramel and R. Friend's (see record 1982-08638-001) interpretations of the Hawthorne studies of industrial workers and their criticisms of the subsequent work by E. Mayo and G. F. Lombard (1943). It is argued that Bramel and Friend were as selective in their criticisms as they accused F. J. Roethlisberger and W. J. Dickson (1939) of being in their interpretations of the Hawthorne effect. A psychological approach, rather than the ideological one adopted by Bramel and Friend, is recommended for future worker–management studies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on nonmaternal child care.

Cautions that C. Etaugh's (see record 1980-11778-001) conclusion that high-quality nonmaternal care does not appear to have adverse effects on a child's development could be interpreted as meaning that nonmaternal care is never harmful to children. More consideration to the developmental status of each family member and to each member's feelings about the childcare arrangement is needed in further research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on recognition and recall in amnesics.

[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 15(3) of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (see record 2008-10697-001). In this article, the authors failed to specify how the group of amnesics that they test in their article differed from the nonalcoholic amnesics tested in Hirst, Johnson, Kim, Phelps, Risse, and Volpe (1986). The pertinent statistics are given in the erratum. Additionally, in the last sentence on page 760, the degrees of freedom for the t test should be 8 instead of 10.] Hirst et al. (1986) reported that amnesic forced-choice recognition was relatively preserved when compared with amnesic recall. They equated normal recognition and amnesic recognition by extending exposure time for the amnesics and then comparing amnesic recall and normal recall. Amnesic recall was worse than normal recall, despite equated recognition. We conducted two experiments to extend that result. Experiment 1 established that the findings of Hirst et al. are not paradigm specific and hold when amnesic recognition and normal recognition are equated by increasing the retention interval for normals. In Experiment 2 we further established the generality of the result by examining yes–no recognition. Findings further specify the selective nature of the direct memory deficits in amnesics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on the limits-to-growth controversy.

Comments on P. C. Stern's (1978) article on the professional notice psychologists and other social scientists are taking of the limits-to-growth controversy, concerning solutions to environmental and resource problems. The ongoing debate is examined between those who believe in the necessity of limits and those who believe in the maximizing of personal freedom. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

More on the Wilson Test.

Sheffield (see 33: 132) has presented a conceptually and computationally simplified adaptation of a distribution-free test for analysis of variance hypothesis. The author presents a logical analysis of the technique demonstrating it to be basically unsound. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)