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Toast For The 1985 George Eliot Birthday Luncheon, Graham Handley

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In proposing this toast I thought I would like to look briefly at George Eliot's real children, and before anyone, sensing an even bigger mid-Victorian scandal than she created by Iiving with George Henry Lewes, asks 'Did she have any?', let me define what I mean by 'real'. I do not mean G. H. Lewes's boys, though she was a devoted mother to them in the best sense of the word, writing to them, being caring and concerned at all times, nursing one in his young manhood dedicatedly until his premature death. I do not mean Elma Stuart, whom George …

Predicting The Supreme Court's Response To The Criticism Of Psychiatric Predictions Of Dangerousness In Civil Commitment Proceedings, Laura K. Haddad

Nebraska Law Review

This article examines several Supreme Court decisions and surveys recent literature and caselaw to ascertain whether the Court would uphold the use of psychiatric opinions in civil commitment proceedings. It will conclude that despite the empirical evidence that questions psychiatric expertise and the potential for erroneous confinement, the Supreme Court will continue to permit psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to proffer such testimony. This article further postulates that the Court should not, and will not, restrict or limit psychiatric opinions and judgments as to dangerousness, but rather should trust the adversarial process to ferret out reliable from unreliable evidence …

Academic Counseling Techniques, Robert G. Pierleoni

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Handout No. 1 Time Management Skills: Guidelines for Students

Handout No. 2 Test-Taking Skills: Guidelines for Students

A. Getting Ready

B. Organizing Content for Review

C. Building Confidence During a Test

Faculty Careers: Satisfactions And Discontents, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Methodology

Discussion of Findings

Faculty Perceptions of Their Academic Responsibilities and Strengths

Sources of Satisfaction

Sources of Concern

Recommendations

Conclusion

Appendix: Faculty Career Interview Guide

References

The Kahuna As Professional And Organizational Development Specialists, Susanne Whitcomb, David Whitcomb

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In this paper, we invite you to return to explore the ways of our professional development ancestors, for their processes were based on principles that are universal and therefore carry power to other cultures and times.

Appendix

References

Learning In A Clinical Setting, Luann Wilkerson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Modeling

Active, Appropriate Practice

Pleasant Conditions

Clarity

Feedback

Conclusion

References

Improving Classroom Climate For Women: The Faculty Developer's Role, Delivee L. Wright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction

Institutional Context

What Has Been Done?

Types of Inequities for Women Students

Role of the Faculty Developer

Faculty Development Activities

Programs Tried at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)

Conclusions

Appendix Self-Check Quiz

References

The Law And Ethics Of Psychosocial Research On Aids, Joni N. Gray, Gary B. Melton

Nebraska Law Review

I. General Issues in the Law and Ethics of Psychosocial Research ... A. The Nature of the Issues ... B. The Ethical and Legal Framework

II. The Nature and Epidemiology of AIDS ... A. Factors Contributing to the Sensitivity of Research on AIDS ... B. Recent Developments in Knowledge about AIDS ... C. The Significance of Psychosocial Research on AIDS

III. Special Problems in Psychosocial Research on AIDS ... A . Privacy ... 1. Intrusiveness ... 2. Confidentiality ... B. Reporting the Results

IV. The Adequacy of Legal Protection of Confidentiality ... A. Legally Sanctioned Encroachments on Confidentiality ... B. …

Sex Differences In The Recognition Of Infant Facial Expressions Of Emotion: The Primary Caretaker Hypothesis, Raymond B. Hames, Wayne A. Babchuk

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Although much research has been devoted to studying sex differences In functioning (e.g., Maccoby and Jacklin 1974), most efforts have been directed toward documenting or elucidating the proximate causes of sex differences. Few attempts have been made, however, to explain the ultimate causes of these differences or the selective pressures that have led to the development or psychological differences between males and females [for exception see Symons (1979) and Daly and Wilson (1983)]. Toward this end of blending psychology with evolutionary theory we develop what we call the " primary caretaker hypothesis," which predicts that the sex that through evolutionary …

Introduction: Medical Science, Moral Controversy, And Legal Change, Craig M. Lawson

Nebraska Law Review

This symposium issue of the Nebraska Law Review is focused explicitly on aspects of physician authority and patient autonomy. The progress of AIDS has everywhere thrown up a myriad of difficult legal issues. These range from issues of research confidentiality to civil liability for transfusion-associated AIDS; from the rights and duties of staff health care professionals who wish to avoid contact with AIDS patients being treated at the institutions where they work, to the rights and duties of health care professionals who wish to treat AIDS patients over the objections of landlords, professional associates, and others. The courts have once …

Micro Computer Network Newsletter

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Welcome

Available in the Resource Room

Equipment

Software Category / Type of Machine

Luncheon Round Table

Share Your Resources at the Conference

Interactive Video Project

Dabbler's Corner

Dabbler's Corner (con't)

User Groups

Thanks

Future Newsletters

Networking

Extending Orientation: Telephone Contacts By Peer Advisers, John Ragle, Kathleen Krone

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

The telephone has been used for delivering a variety of services to college students. Because consumers typically initiate the telephone contact themselves, the effectiveness of these programs depends on the extent to which students are aware of the availability of services and of their own needs for assistance. First-semester freshmen may have the least adequate information about what constitutes a problem and where to go for help on campus. In 1982 the Dean of Students Office at the University of Texas at Austin conducted a pilot study of a telephone contact program in which peer advisers placed telephone calls to …

Effects Of Interpersonal Problem-Solving Training With Chronic Aftercare Patients On Problem-Solving Component Skills And Effectiveness Of Solutions, David J. Hansen, Janet S. St. Lawrence, Karen A. Christoff

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Seven chronic psychiatric patients who were enrolled in a partial-hospitalization program and had difficulty solving interpersonal problems received group skills training. A multiple-baseline design was used to demonstrate training effectiveness through improved problem solving on trained situations and through skill generalization to novel, untrained situations. Maintenance of the training was evaluated after 1 month and 4 months. Social validation was accomplished by comparing the problem-solving competency of the patient sample with skills demonstrated by “normal” nonpsychiatric persons in their community.

How Does Familiarity Affect Visual Search For Letter Strings?, John H. Flowers, Doris J. Lohr

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Subjects visually searched for letter string targets consisting of either familiar English three-letter words (e.g., SEX) or featurally similar nonword trigrams (e.g., SFX). Distractor items were either words or nonwords and had varying degrees of feature overlap with the target among different blocks of trials. Search was facilitated by a word-nonword category distinction between target and distractors, particularly when target-noise feature overlap was high, but such facilitation consisted of slope reductions in an apparently serial, self-terminating search pattern as opposed to a "pop-out" effect.

Two Views Of Sex Differences In Socialization, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The literature on the socialization of human sex differences is likely to remind many students of the parable about the blind men who were grouped around an elephant, each trying to describe to the others what the elephant was like. Several traditions of research in the social sciences have been involved in the study of why the sexes are different. One that emphasizes deliberate sex role training of children owes most of its insights to learning theory and developmental psychology. It regards sex role socialization as the result of interplay between the environmental experience and the child's active learning and …

Job Satisfaction And Women’S Spheres Of Work, Helen A. Moore

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Job satisfaction for women workers is traditionally researched from the job-gender model in which sex roles generate the research framework. Women employed in the labor market are viewed as responding primarily to the confines of sex roles, as opposed to the structural rewards and constraints of the labor market itself. We reexamined earlier studies that found no effect of the labor market on job satisfaction for women. Reanalysis of the 1972-1973 Quality of Employment national survey revealed significantly different levels of job satisfaction, which are in part structured by the characteristics of the labor market sectors in which women and …

Walking Straight Home From School: Pedestrian Route Choice By Young Children, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Unobtrusive observations of 50 randomly selected pedestrian youngsters were made after the children had been dismissed from elementary schoois in Lincoln, Nebraska. The results demonstrate that (a) 88 percent of the students walked directly to a residential dwelling: (b) 98 percent chose a least-distance path from their school to their residence or other destination: (c) the majority of students (62 percent), by choosing to minimize distance, found their route choices reduced to a single route option:' and (d) when faced with the choice between two or more distance-minimizing routes, the children in this study selected structurally more complex routes than …

Hegemonic Life-Worlds: A Discussion Of The Phenomenology Of Routes And Connectivity In Planning And Design, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

I. Introduction

II. The Social Context of Spatiality

I I I . Class-Ernbedded Descriptions of Routes: A Personal Example

IV. Designers and Hegemony

A. Life-World Hegemony

B. Hegemony and Opposition

E. An Example of Gender-Specific Hegemony

D. Access, Disability, Physical Design and Collective Responsibility

V. Positivist Hegemony and Destruction of Human Values

VI. Positivist Conceptions of Routes

A. Arithmetizing Paths

B. Geometrizing Paths

C. Discussion: The Maze at Hampton Court

VII. Toward the Phenomenology of Routes

A. A Program of Investigation

B. Discussion

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Xiii (1985): Table Of Contents

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee .......... ii

Editorial Board, Instruction to Contributors .......... v

Membership Objectives and Friends of the Academy .......... vi

Meet Dr. Bob! (M. H. Pritchard) .......... 1

Reminiscences: My forty-year romance with malaria (G. R. Coatney) .......... 5

Biological and Medical Sciences

Mosses of the Great Plains X. The Niobrara Valley Preserve and adjacent area in Nebraska (S. P. Churchill) .......... 13

Grasshopper dietary (Orthoptera: Acrididae) from a Nebraska Sand Hills prairie (A. Joern) .......... 21

Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska (J. D. Lynch) .......... 33

Water quality of a …

Research Notes Organizational Commitment: A Comparison Of American, Japanese, And Korean Employees, Fred Luthans, Harriette S. Mccaul, Nancy G. Dodd

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Considerable attention is currently being given to exploring differences between Japanese and American workers that might explain the widening gap between the productivity growth rates of the two countries. Some researchers have suggested that this difference in productivity growth is, at least in part, due to Japanese workers' having a higher level of commitment to their orgnaizations than American works (Cole, 1979; Hatvany & Pucik, 1981; Marsh & Mannari, 1977; Whitehall & Takezawa, 1968). Turnover rates are commonly cited to support the popular notion that Japanese employees, whose turnover rate is about half that of their American counterparts, are more …

The Ecology Of Foraging Behavior: Implications For Animal Learning And Memory, Alan Kamil, Herbert L. Roitblat

Avian Cognition Papers

In his recent Annual Review of Psychology article, Snowdon (1983) discussed the synthesis of ethology and comparative psychology. A similar synthesis of behavioral ecology and animal learning is beginning to take place. This article reviews developments in the behavioral ecology and ethology of foraging behavior relevant to psychological research on animal learning. The psychological literature shows that animals possess a wide range of learning abilities, including “simple” classical and operant conditioning; they acquire spatial, nonspatial, and temporal discriminations; they exhibit various forms of rule learning (e.g. matching-to-sample and learning set), and may even in certain senses learn language. Why does …

The Effects Of Prey Depletion On The Patch Choice Of Foraging Blue Jays (Cyanocitta Cristata), Alan Kamil, Sonja I. Yoerg

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) were trained to hunt for non-cryptic moths presented in projected images. On each trial, the jays chose one of two patches to hunt in: (1) a uniform, “non-depleting” patch with constant prey density of 0.25; or (2) a “depleting” patch in which prey density changed during the foraging bout. In the depleting patch, the initial prey density was 0.50, declining to zero in a single step part-way through each foraging bout (session). The patch choices of the jays were greatly affected by these conditions. The jays chose the depleting patch early in the session, …

On The Possibility And Realization Of Feminist Art, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The focus of this paper is the possibility and realization of feminist art. I will move directly to the central arguments--outlining the case against and the case for the possibility of feminist art. I will argue that a sociological perspective leads one inexorably to the firm possibility of feminist art. Finally, I will open discussion toward the realization of feminist art and invite you to begin with me an exploration of sociology’s potential contributions to the realization of this feminist project.

Intellectual Violence, Democratic Legitimation, And The War Over The Family, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This paper presents a view of democratically rationalized repression as a framework within which to discuss Brigitte Berger and Peter L. Berger's recent anti-feminist, bourgeois apologetic: The War over the Family: Capturing the Middle Ground. The Bergers' book is presented as an example of intellectual violence, a ruthless attempt to legitimate continuing patriarchal dominance through perverted appeals to "democracy" and democratic principles of fairness and consensus.

Job Satisfaction And Job Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Michelle Iaffaldano [Graef], Paul M. Muchinsky

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

The assumption that job satisfaction and job performance are related has much intuitive appeal, despite the fact that reviewers of this literature have concluded there is no strong pervasive relation between these two variables. The present meta-analytic study demonstrates that (a) the best estimate of the true population correlation between satisfaction and performance is relatively low (.17); (b) much of the variability in results obtained in previous research has been due to the use of small sample sizes, whereas unreliable measurement of the satisfaction and performance constructs has contributed relatively little to this observed variability in correlations; and (c) nine …

School Health Services For Handicapped Children: The Door Opens No Further: Irving Independent School District V. Tatro, 104 S. Ct. 3371 (1984), Joyce Dickey Palomar

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Background: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act and Supreme Court Interpretation Prior to Tatro ... A. The EAHCA ... B. Hendrick Hudson District Board of Education v. Rowley ... 1. The Court's Definition of "Appropriate Education" ... 2. Scope of Judicial Review of Educational Decisions ... C. Concerns of Educators and Parents after Rowley

III. The Tatro Decision ... A. Administrative and Lower Court Action ... B. The Supreme Court Opinion

IV. The Tatro Decision's Contribution to EAHCA Interpretation and Application ... A. Questions Answered by Tatro ... B. Questions Tatro Did Not Answer and New …

Privacy, Confidentiality, And Autonomy In Psychotherapy, William J. Winslade, Judith Wilson Ross

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Concepts of Privacy and Confidentiality ... A. Background and Overview ... B. Privacy ... 1. Law ... 2. Economics ... 3. Anthropology ... 4. Philosophy ... 5. Psychology ... 6. Summary: Core Concepts of Privacy ... C. Confidentiality

III. Privacy and Confidentiality in Law ... A. Constitutional Law ... B. Tort Law ... C. Privilege Law ... 1. In Re Lifschutz ... 2. Caesar v. Mountanos ... 3. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California

IV. Privacy and Confidentiality in Psychotherapists' Professional Ethics Codes ... A. Overview of Ethics Codes ... B. Form and Content …

Review Of Aesthetics And The Sociology Of Art, By Janet Wolff, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

In this compactly written and generally accessible monograph, Janet Wolff outlines the contours of reductionism and ideology as central issues in the sociology of art. She provides a thorough critique of contemporary sociological practice, surgically identifying sloppy logic and intellectual imperialism in nearly every recent attempt to solve the "problem" of aesthetics sociologically. Upon completing the book, the reader will no doubt feel greatly informed about a wide range of epistemological, methodological, and ideological issues. At the same time, the reader may feel perplexed in his/her attempt to frame an answer to the question, "What's the next step?" Hence, the …

The Probe, Issue 48 - December 1984

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

THE PROBE
National Animal Damage Control Association No. 48 December, 1984
Why do We have Laws Requiring the Preservation of Species?
Animal Rightists
Tennessee Coyotes
Letters to Ye Ed
Northwest Section WIldlife Meeting 1984
Live Trap
Psycho Coyote
Mobilization of Animals
National Park Systems do Differ
Blackfooted Ferrets
Animal Liberation
Raccoon Problems
Animal Protection Institute

Statistical Consulting In A Geographically Dispersed Organization, Richard M. Engeman, William E. Dusenberry

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

There has been much discussion in the recent statistical literature concerning the optimal manner for a consulting statistician to operate within a larger organization. Marquardt (1979) described the "total involvement" approach, involving a statistician from conceptualization of a project to the final report; Finney (1982) discussed the questions a statistician should ask for effective consulting; and Bishop, Peterson, and Tragser (1982) argued that a statistician's most substantive contributions are made during the planning stages of a study. McCulloch et al. (1982) described a program for training statistical consultants, and Hunter (1981) discussed the roles a statistician may assume.