Creativity, birth order, and preference for symmetry.

Administered 3 measures of creativity: (a) complexity-simplicity preferences, (b) Personal Opinion Survey, and (c) an unusual uses test to 450 undergraduates. The intercorrelation of the creativity measures ranged .45-.83 (p's     

轴线的解构:丹尼尔·里伯斯金,犹太人博物馆,1989~1999年

<正>20世纪70年代,罗莎琳德·克劳斯(Rosalind Krauss)~([1])在纽约的建筑与城市研究所(Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies),以\"指示符号札记(Notes on the Index)\"为题,进行了两场重要讲座。之后,这两场讲座的内容以论文形式发表在杂志《十月》(October)第3期(1977年春)和第4期(1977年秋)上面。在讲座中,克劳斯讨论了形象符号(icon)、象征符号(symbo1)和指示符号(index)的区别,而这种区别是由C·S·皮尔斯最先提出来的。对皮尔斯来说,形象符号与其对象具有视觉上的相似性,象征符号     

Regionalization defects in the weaver mouse cerebellum

The mammalian cerebellum consists of parasagittal bands and transverse zones that are laid down early in development. When the adult cerebellum is immunostained for the Purkinje cell-specific antigen zebrin II (i.e., aldolase C), compartmentation is reflected in alternating zebrin II+ (P+) and zebrin II- bands (P ). The zebrin II phenotype is Purkinje cell autonomous; thus, disruptions in the zebrin pattern may reflect early problems in pattern formation. Zebrin II expression has been examined in the weaver (wv) mouse cerebellum. Both zebrin II- and zebrin II Purkinje cells are present in the homozygous weaver (wv/wv) mouse, but they are not distributed normally. In the posterior vermis, although the zebrin II+ bands are wider and multilaminate, the standard compartmentation is present. However, a large zebrin II+ cell mass is absent from the central vermis, and analysis of the anterior lobe reveals several missing zebrin II- bands. The cytoarchitectonic defects in wv mice are not simply related to the Purkinje cell abnormalities. Instead, serial reconstruction reveals two transverse boundaries-one rostrally in lobule VI and the other caudally in lobule IX-that delineate cytoarchitectonic transverse zones important in cerebellar development. The abnormal zebrin expression pattern in wv/wv mice may be secondary to the deletion of a transverse zone. This is the first demonstration that Purkinje cell compartmentation can be altered by mutation; therefore, the wv mutation should prove valuable in understanding cerebellar regionalization.     

Why psychologists should study race.

Notes useful and potentially harmful effects of the article by A. H. Yee et al (see record 1994-09250-001) addressing psychology's problems with race. Eisenman expresses the fear that the position taken by Yee et al will lead to ignorance, justifying those who say "ignore race" either because they consider it an unscientific concept or because they think it politically harmful to study race. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Creativity, awareness, and liking.

As a follow-up to a previous investigation of F. Barron's creativity theory, and in order to extend previous findings, 302 undergraduates took an unusual uses test, the Barron-Welsh Art Scale (BWAS), and a polygon measure of complexity-simplicity. Ss also rated how much they liked being in the study on a 1-7 scale, and stated what they thought was the purpose of the research. The fluency and originality scores, derived from the unusual uses test, showed very high intercorrelations, while the BWAS and polygon measures were intercorrelated with each other and with originality and fluency. Although the results seem partially due to method variance, the correlations suggest, in contrast to several previous findings, that there are creativity measures which show a reasonable degree of interrelationship, thereby justifying subsuming them under the construct "creativity." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Experimental manipulation of authoritarianism and its effect on creativity.

Examined the hypothesis that authoritarianism and creativity may be opposite poles of the same continuum. 500 undergraduates were administered the California F Scale and the Personal Opinion Survey measure of creativity. A total of 80 Ss were chosen to fit 4 groups: males high in authoritarianism and low in creativity, females high in authoritarianism and low in creativity, males high in creativity and low in authoritarianism, and females high in creativity and low in authoritarianism. A modified Asch-type conformity situation was used to see if changing authoritarianism would affect creativity scores. All 4 groups had their authoritarianism manipulated in the predicted direction, and this resulted in changed creativity scores for all groups except the high-authoritarian males. Results support the hypothesis. (24 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A journal for psychological essays.

Supports W. Webb's (1965) proposal for a journal for the publication of psychological essays, arguing that there is an overemphasis on empirical studies and a neglect of speculative essays in current psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Further evidence for a unique developmental compartment in the cerebellum of the meander tail mutant mouse as revealed by the quantitative analysis of Purkinje cells

The cerebellum of the meander tail mutant mouse (mea/mea) is characterized by a relatively normal cytoarchitecture posteriorly with an abrupt transition to an anterior region in which there is abnormal foliation, agranularity, and Purkinje cell (PC) ectopia. This study presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the PC in the mea/mea cerebellum. Developmental and morphological analyses reveal that the PC in the anterior region of the mea/mea cerebellum do not form a monolayer during the first week of postnatal development as they do in the wild type mouse. In the adult mea/mea, the dendrites of these ectopic cells are atrophic and disoriented. Quantitative studies in adult animals reveal that while the total number of PC is normal, the number of PC in the affected anterior region of the mea/mea cerebellum is greater than the number of PC in the anterior lobe, as classically defined by the primary fissure, of the normal animal. These data suggest that 1) the developmental morphology of the PC in the anterior region is abnormal, probably due to the lack of granule cells at early postnatal times; 2) the total number of PC in the cerebellum is normal, and 3) the defect is not restricted to the anterior lobe but involves a portion of the posterior lobe. The latter supports the notion that the mutant gene affects a unique developmental compartment in the cerebellum which does not coincide with the classic adult boundary, the primary fissure, between the anterior and posterior lobes.