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Socialization Of Children’S Vicarious Emotional Responding And Prosocial Behavior: Relations With Mothers' Perceptions Of Children's Emotional Reactivity , Richard A. Fabes, Nancy Eisenberg, Mariss Karbon, Jane Bernzweig, Anna Lee Speer, Gustavo Carlo

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

We examined mother-child emotion-related interactions and how these interactions related to mothers’ perceptions of children’s emotional reactivity. Mothers of 49 kindergartners and 54 2nd graders told their children 2 stories about distressed others. Children’s emotional, physiological, and prosocial responses were also obtained. Mothers rated children’s tendencies to become emotional when exposed to distressed others. For kindergartners, mothers’ perceptions of children’s emotional reactivity were positively related to her use of positive facial expressions. Mothers’ perceptions of 2nd graders’ emotional reactivity were inversely related to maternal responsiveness. For both age groups, children’s skin conductance was inversely related to helpfulness. These findings suggest …

Nebline, February 1994

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Horticulture

Rural $ense

Human Resources

4-H & Youth

Environmental Focus

Community & Leadership Development

Extension Calendar

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Nebraska Association for Family and Community Education News

and other extension news and events

The Effects Of Migration Upon The Quality Of Life Of Elderly Movers In A Small Prairie City: The Case Of Brandon, Manitoba, John Everitt, Barbara Gfellner

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Mobility decisions and the effects of migration upon the quality of life of elderly people who had recently relocated to or within Brandon are assessed and compared with the responses ofa non-mover "control group." Although confirming many established results concerning the migration of the elderly, other conclusions also emerged. For instance, migrants and non-movers have a number of different social demographic characteristics, and their needs and desires appear to be quite dissimilar. Although non-movers appear apprehensive about the future, many movers see positive outcomes, in terms of life satisfaction, resulting from their migration. The research also raises the question of …

A Multiplicative Model Of The Dispositional Antecedents Of A Prosocial Behavior: Predicting More Of The People More Of The Time, George Knight, Lora G. Johnson, Gustavo Carlo, Nancy Eisenberg

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Researchers have demonstrated that individual differences in prosocial behavior may be a function of dispositional or person variables. However, the observed empirical relations have been relatively modest, perhaps because researchers have most often examined simple additive or single predictor models. The present investigation examined a multiplicative model of the relation of dispositional variables to a prosocial behavior. Eighty-six children between 6 and 9 years old completed a monetary donation task and measures of the general tendency to understand and reason about the affective state of others, to be sympathetic, and to understand the units and value of money. As expected, …

Who Wants To Stop The Church: Homosexual Rights Legislation, Public Policy, And Religious Freedom, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Religions that make peace with the spirit of the age have little to fear from the rulers of the day. But believers who refuse to adapt their religious practices to the Zeitgeist are vulnerable under Smith, unless the Court decides to protect religious pluralism by giving full scope to Smith's exceptions.

I have tried to show that homosexual rights legislation imposes heavy costs on the right of employers and landlords to take character into account when making business decisions. These costs are particularly heavy when borne by religiously-motivated persons, who are declared outlaws merely for trying to obey God …

The Effects Of Requiring Different Response Strategies Following Caching In Clark’S Nutcrackers (Nucifraga Columbiana), Alan Kamil, Russell P. Balda, Deborah J. Olson

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Clark’s nutcrackers use spatial memory to recover stored food in the field and have performed very well in laboratory tests of spatial memory. During the present experiment, two groups of nutcrackers cached seeds every 4 days. Following each cache session, the stay group was tested with seeds in their caches; the shift group found seeds in novel sites. The stay group performed accurately throughout the experiment, but the shift group gave no indication of being able to learn to avoid sites where they had stored seeds. These results suggest that although nutcrackers can learn to shift away from remembered locations …

Responding To The Americans With Disabilities Act: Contributions Of Interpersonal Communication Research And Training, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Denise Labreque

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has resulted in considerable misinformation and resistance, especially when ablebodied individuals and persons with disabilities interact. This essay reviews contributions of interpersonal communication researchers who address the challenges persons with disabilities face when communicating with ablebodied others, suggesting ways to mitigate communication discomfort and to reduce problems in helping situations. The authors suggest foci for future research and training which can contribute to the acceptance and effectiveness of ADA and to facilitate communication between ablebodied persons and persons with disabilities.

Women's Studies 1994 Fall Semester Newsletter, Barbara Dibemard

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

During Spring Semester 1994, Women's Studies major Thelma Ross became the first student awarded the Women's Studies Program's Outstanding Achievement Award for undergraduate students. Ross was awarded $500 at a reception in May for her project which was a research paper entitled "The Choice to be Child Free." According to Ross, this award will help her further her Women's Studies education. She used part of the award to help fund her summer 1994 independent study on feminism and political theory with Professor Laura Sanchez.

Unl Women's Studies Spring Semester 1994, Barbara Dibernard

Women's and Gender Studies Program: Information and Materials

The Women's Studies Program at UNL is flourishing. We are more visible than ever, more students are taking our courses and becoming majors and minors, we have continued to attract new faculty, we are adding to our curriculum, we are bringing exciting speakers to campus, and we are working with numerous groups to increase the visibility of women's issues on campus.

Teaching Goals, Assessment, Academic Freedom And Higher Learning, Thomas Angelo

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

In this brief essay, I'm going to try to convince you that examining our teaching goals carefully--and balancing them against our students' learning goals and colleagues' teaching goals--can help us become more effective, and perhaps even excellent college teachers.

Learning A Lot Vs. Looking Good: A Source Of Anxiety For Students, Anastasia S. Hagen

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Many teachers have observed that some of their best students also appear to be the students with the greatest amount of anxiety towards school. Teachers have often asked themselves, "Why is this bright, capable student feeling so anxious about what they will be asked to do in my course?" This article is an attempt to provide some insight into this situation with respect to the way students set academic goals.

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Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

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1994 Pod Network Conference Attendees

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

19th Annual Conference Program

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Exploring the Conference Theme

Welcome, by Larry K. Quinsland, Conference Coordinator

POD Executive Directors

1994-95 CORE Committee Members

Acknowledgements

Conference Information and Resources

Conference Overview

Conference At-a-Glance

Special Events and Speakers

Conference Program

Meeting Facilities Red Lion Hotel Columbia River

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Call For Papers For The 1994 Edition Of To Improve The Academy

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Deadline for submission: February 1st, 1994.

POD invites submissions for the 1994 edition of To Improve The Academy.

To Improve The Academy is the journal of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education which is published annually. It is a collection of essays written by POD's members and supporters. Since its inception in 1982, To Improve The Academy has provided a forum for articles on improving higher education through instructional, faculty, and organizational development.

Anni Albers: Pre-Columbian Resonances: The Significance Of Pre-Columbian Art In Her Textiles And Writings, Virginia Gardner Troy

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Anni Albers is known primarily for her contribution to the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop and her woven prototypes for industrial production; she has rarely been acknowledged for her role in reviving and redefining the Pre-Columbian fiber art tradition. She researched, analyzed, collected, and extensively wrote about Pre-Columbian textiles. Her seminal text, On Weaving, 1965, is not only dedicated to Andean weavers, "my great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru," but is essentially a textbook of Andean weaving techniques, revived and meticulously analyzed by Albers. Furthermore, she and her husband, Josef Albers, amassed an important collection of ancient Mesoamerican sculpture, acquired …

The Pomegranate Pattern In Italian Renaissance Textiles: Origins And Influence, Rosalia Bonito Fanelli

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

The term "pomegranate motif" includes a series of vegetal patterns—the pine cone, the artichoke, the thistle, variants of the tree-of-life motif, and, in particular, the lotus and the palmette. These last two patterns were closely studied by Alois Riegl in his 1893 work Stilfragen (Problems of Style). The term itself came into use during the period of historic revivalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century. At that time important design theorists and practitioners such as Owen Jones, William Morris, and Walter Crane dedicated space in their writings with accompanying plates to the reconstruction of Renaissance pomegranate patterns. The …

Bird Damage At Aquaculture Facilities, W. Paul Gorenzel, Fred S. Conte, Terrell P. Salmon

Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage Handbook

Reduction of the damage caused by fish-eating birds requires accurate bird identification and some knowledge of avian biology and habits. The open-water areas and large concentrations of aquatic livestock at aquaculture facilities are natural attractants to many birds. Birds can have a significant economic impact on the culture of aquatic products including fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. For our purpose here, we will refer to these birds as fish-eating birds, and the aquatic products as fish.

Performance Of Four Seed-Caching Corvid Species In The Radial-Arm Maze Analog, Alan Kamil, Russell P. Balda, Deborah J. Olson

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Four seed-caching corvid species were tested in an open-room analog of the radial-arm maze. During Experiment 1, the species more dependent on stored food, Clark’s nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) and pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus), acquired the task more quickly and to higher accuracy levels than either scrub jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) or Mexican jays (A. ultramarina). During Experiment 2, performance after retention intervals was tested. When intervals of 30-210 min were tested in ascending order, species differences observed during acquisition were again obtained. However, when intervals of 5-300 min were tested in random order, …

Index To Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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The Necessity Of Narrative In William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways And Prairyerth, Pamela Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the essay "Journeys into Kansas," William Least Heat-Moon articulates his theory of travel writing, indicating his understanding of the purposes of travel writing in general and of his two books in particular, along with the problems inherent in achieving those purposes. A reading of Blue Highways and PrairyErth in light of "Journeys into Kansas" reveals how HeatMoon realizes his goals more fully in Blue Highways, which entails a personal narrative, than in PrairyErth, which, unlike Blue Highways, lacks a personal narrative and is as much a meditation on its own writing and HeatMoon's theory of its …

Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.

Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him "Mr. Canadian Post.. modern."2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon's formulation, however, …

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1994 Vol. 14 No. 1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer In Psychology, Kevin B. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology, by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., presents a cogent portrait of an individual whose work and personality helped shape his community. As such, this biography resurrects Wolfe's life and contributions from their obscure condition, brief footnotes in a few psychology texts. Benjamin's work is a vital biography which will appeal to a diverse audience far beyond the scope its title suggests.

"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …

The Mediator Is The Message: Anna Dawe, Cana-Dawe, And Bad Lands As A State Of Mind, Bruce A. Butterfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Hodgins's novel [The Invention of the World] eventually tells us, when you begin to disbelieve in external authority "you can begin to believe in yourself."-Frank Davey

Review Of Without Reserve: Stories From Urban Natives, Patricia A. Mccormack

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Without Reserve is a set of profiles of nine Native people living in Edmonton, Alberta. Each person's story is told in a separate chapter, with brief anecdotes compiled in two additional chapters. Author Lynda Shorten was formerly a reporter with the Edmonton Journal, where she co-authored a series about urban Natives, the genesis of this broader work. Without Reserve is not an academic book, falling, as it does, into a genre of journalistic narratives about Native peoples, for which a significant public market exists, yet it will also attract a social science audience and will probably be assigned to …

Do You See What I See?, Karin Mcginnis, Kenneth Maeckelbergh

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper explores the role of visual perception as a value-laden, learned behavior. Through example, including visual conventions, it describes the relationships between perception, culture, and experience as well as the impact visual imagery has in the academic community. Methods for developing critical visual inquiry (visual literacy) are included.

Putting Empowerment To Work In The Classroom, Trudy Knowles, Cheryl Medearis, Anne Snell

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

At Sinte Gleska University, a tribal college on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, we are empowering students through our teaching methods and curricular choices. Three areas have been identified as important ingredients in empowering students: validating culture, teaching to learning styles, and utilizing teaching strategies resulting in self-directed learning.

These three elements of empowerment can open up avenues of knowledge that have been previously closed to students on the Rosebud Reservation. As students discover that knowledge is powerful, they begin to learn because they want to.

Change in the fundamental ways we view ourselves as teachers is necessary in order to …