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Sex And Violence: Can Research Have It Both Ways?, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

During the last decade, the literature on media exposure has been dominated by a single theoretical system of personality functioning—the social learning model. The model emphasizes that the disinhibition of already-learned behavior, the learning of new behaviors, and the establishment of patterns of personality result from observing the behavior of other people (models) and from vicarious reinforcement upon viewing those models successfully engaging in rewarded sequences of behavior.

It is a tribute to the degree to which social learning oriented psychologists have successfully influenced intellectual and governmental thinking that the model is seldom questioned as providing the appropriate basis for …

Stability Of Perceived Tension As A Function Of The Menstrual Cycle, Paula Englander-Golden, Keith A. Willis, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The stability of tension judgments among males and females who were either taking or not taking combination low-progestin oral contraceptive pills was investigated. Judgments of interpersonal pressure in videotaped vignettes provided tension measures. The vignettes were presented in two sessions separated by two weeks. Correlations between pressure judgments of .94 for males, .79 for pill females and .40 for non-pill females (all sig < .002) supported the prediction that non-pill females experience the largest fluctuations in tension across the menstrual cycle. A significant number of non-pill females who changed their scores and who changed from midcycle to premenstrual-menstrual phases or vice versa between the two experimental sessions shifted their tension scores in the predicted direction (p < .04). As predicted, non-pill females scoring in the lower half on premenstrual-menstrual symptomatology were more consistent in pressure judgments than those high on symptomatology, with correlations of .51 (sig < .004) and .24 (NS) respectively. Analysis of pressure judgments as a function of menstrual phase and high-low symptomatology indicated a main effect for symptomatology (sig < .01) with the high group perceiving more pressure. Lack of a main effect for menstrual phase was attributed to large individual variations in tension scores. Results were interpreted as indicating physiological causality underlying the variability in tension across the menstrual cycle. Substituting the Repression-Sensitization dimension for symptomatology yielded no significant results which could lead to a psychological interpretation of such variability.

Departmental Review: Department Of Agricultural Education, Osmund S. Gilbertson

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Materials and History

1. Schedule for Review of Departmental Program

2. Overview of Agricultural Education Department: Functions; Budgets; Where Ag. Ed. Graduates Go; Advisory Council

3. University Administration: UN-L Organization Chart; IANR Administrative Chart

4. Agricultural Education Faculty: Staff and Assignments; Appointments, status and experience; Professional Activities during last two calendar years

5. Instructional Program: Teaching &Advisement; mEnrollment History; Undergraduate Curriculum; Graduate Program; Departmental Self Survey

6. Research and Writing: Project Descriptions; Accomplishments; Planned Objectives; Recent Publications

7. Extension Activities

8. Special Programs: In-Service Education; Curriculum Modification Project

9. Future Directions: Instructional; Research; Extension; Continuing/In-Service

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

A Message from the Vice Chancellor ......................... 2

International 4-H Youth Exchange ............................ 3

When Sudden Infant Death Strikes ........................... 4

Have You Been Duped? .................................... 6

Rain or Drought-Your Guess or Mine? ....................... 8

Becoming the Me I'd Like to. Be .............................. 10

TLC for Your Plants ........................................ 12

AgriScope ................................................. 15

Wheat Leaf Rust Attacks Crap Yields .......................... 16

Small Beef Packers Undergo. Changes ......................... 18

Energy Impacts on Nebraska Agriculture ...................... 20

Irrigation Scheduling Saves Time and Money .................. 22

A General Contingency Theory Of Management, Fred Luthans, Todd I. Stewart

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Recent formal recognition of situational influences on the management of complex organizations has led to an increasing number of contingency models, but a comprehensive and integrative theoretical framework for contingency management has been lacking. A General Contingency Theory (GCT) of Management is introduced as an overall framework that integrates the diverse process, quantitative and behavioral approaches to management; incorporates the environment; and begins to bridge the gap between management theory and practice

Exceptions To The Rule: A Review Of The Criminal Personality, Volume I: A Profile For Change, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The major purpose of the first volume of an intended three-volume series by Samuel Yochelson and Stanton E. Samenow (1976) is to provide evidence that understanding the thought processes of chronic criminals provides the major key to understanding criminal behavior. Volumes II and III will deal, respectively, with the techniques of therapy developed for the analysis and correction of criminal thought patterns, and with the special problems of therapy with criminals who are chronic drug users. This review of Volume I is divided into three parts, the first being a review of the content and major points of the book, …

Agricultural Experiment Station News March 1977

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:
FROM THE DIRECTOR'S DESK
PERSONNEL ACTIONS
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
GENERAL NOTES
NEBRASKA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION PUBLICATIONS – February 1977
BULLETINS PRINTED

Ethnicity And Socioeconomic Status As Determinants Of Social Participation: A Test Of The Interaction Hypothesis, J. Allen Williams Jr., Louis St. Peter

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The burgeoning research in recent years on participation in voluntary associations has led to a generally consistent, cumulative literature. From these studies we now know a great deal about who affiliates with what kind of organizations and why. As with most areas of inquiry, however, certain issues remain unresolved. With respect to minority participation, an important and unanswered question has been: Do black Americans have a higher or lower rate of social participation than their white counterparts? Although seemingly a simple question to answer, contradictory findings have led to considerable, and sometimes heated, debate which has lasted for many years. …

Ethnic Group Settlement On The Great Plains, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

The importance of foreign-born immigrants and their children for the settlement of the Great Plains has been largely overlooked by historians of the frontier and of the trans-Mississippi West. While an extensive literature exists treating Indian history and Indian-white relationships, white populations have usually been treated as homogeneous. In such a classic study as Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Plains, ethnic groups of European origin are scarcely mentioned. More recent interpretations of the region note differences between Indians, Chicanos, Orientals, and blacks, but fail to distinguish European ethnic groups, such as Norwegians, Germans, and Czechs from each other or from …

"Introduction" To The Great Plains: Environment And Culture, Frederick C. Luebke

Department of History: Faculty Publications

In the pages that follow I have summarized the views of certain selected scholars whose emphases seem to illustrate changing and contrasting interpretations of the interaction of environment and culture on the Great Plains. I have grouped their writings into two inclusive categories. First come those whose conceptual schemes suggest the primacy of environmental variables. I refer to these scholars, perhaps simplistically, as environmentalists, even though this term has acquired a different meaning in recent years. In the second group are several scholars, selected more arbitrarily than the first, whose writings seem to accord more importance to cultural factors. For …

Ec77-868 Grain Pricing Alternatives, Lynn H. Lutgen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-868 is about grain marketing decisions. It discusses how marketing decisions used in the 50’s and 60’s are outdated and will no longer work during the early 70’s.

Ec77-2043 Housing Needs And Wants

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-2043 discusses Housing needs and wants.

Ec77-199 Hay Fever Plants Of Nebraska, John D. Furrer

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-199 describes different plants in Nebraska that cause hay fever.

Ec77-708 Noise...Sound Without Value, Rollin D. Schnieder

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-708 talks about the different effects noise has on the body and mind.

1977 National Conference Program Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Table of Contents

Types of Sessions

Conference Schedule

Descriptions of Demonstrations Workshops

Descriptions of the General Sessions

Descriptions of Program Samples

Descriptions of Resource Materials

Descriptions of the Working Sessions

Connecting with Consultants

Core Committee Members

Conference Planning Committee

Pod Conference Participants

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

No abstract provided.

Ec77-868 Grain Pricing Alternatives, Lynn Lutgen

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Grain marketing decisions during the 1950's and 60's were not as critical as in the past few years. During the 50's and 60's grain producers faced stable prices resulting from government production controls with prices fluctuating over the year perhaps 15 cents to 25 cents per bushel. As a result, producer marketing decisions had very little influence on revenue obtained by the firm. With more international involvements, producers have gone from an era of stable prices and large government surpluses to an era of unstable, widely fluctuating, and now declining prices for most major grains. The producer has two basic …

Agrarian Reform In Eighteenth -Century Denmark, Lawrence J. Baack

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

AGRARIAN REFORM can be one of the most complex tasks of government. It has immense consequences for the social, political, and economic structure of a society and for this reason often encounters resistance from traditional elites. In addition, the interrelated questions of land, labor, capital, education, and marketing require a comprehensive response and any single element in this matrix may be ignored only at considerable risk. Finally, the institutional and psychological characteristics of rural society have often proved remarkably impervious to change, yet if government is to be sensitive to the cultural and psychological needs of the rural community it …

Visual Detection Of Cryptic Prey By Blue Jays (Cyanocitta Cristata), Alexandra T. Pietrewicz, Alan Kamil

Avian Cognition Papers

Blue jays learned to respond differentially to the presence or absence of Catocala moths in slides. This detection of the moths by the jays was affected by the background upon which the moth was placed and its body orientation, thus providing an objective measure of crypticity. These procedures are useful for the study of visual detection of prey.

Concepts Of Career And General Education, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This paper examines the distinctions between general education and education for a career, with a view to synthesizing the literature and presenting salient problems. General education can be defined in several ways. It is defined here as education that puts a person in touch with the main outlines of knowledge available to a historical period or a given culture. Theoretically, education is general if it has no one specific vocation as its end and no one specific discipline or partisan viewpoint as its specialty. By way of example, the medieval quadrivium and trivium can be viewed as "general education," in …

Ec77-550 Teens...The Challenging Years, Ron Daly

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-550 discusses teenagers. This circular talks about how the teen years are a challenging time for both parents and young people.

Ec77-220 1976 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 77-220 is the 1976 Nebraska Dairy Report

Operation Of No-Fault Auto Laws: A Survey Of The Surveys, Jeffrey O'Connell

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. No-Fault Systems

III. Statistical Studies

IV. Slowing of Legislative Momentum

V. Conclusion

Selective Attention Between Words, Shapes And Colors In Speeded Classification And Vocalization Tasks, John H. Flowers, Charles M. Stoup

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The presence of irrelevant words (incongruent color and shape names) substantially slowed the sorting of shapes and colors. This interference was maintained over four sessions of practice for color sorting, but essentially vanished for shape classification and color classification using stimuli in which the word and color were physically separated. Interference with oral naming was maintained over 4 days of practice for all types of stimuli, demonstrating that spatial selectivity of attention is highly dependent upon the response requirements of the task.

A Linguistic View Of Habermas' Theory Of Communicative Competence, Elisabeth Leinfellner

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Habermas'view of language has been widely discussed in Europe and, to some extent, by rhetoricians and philosophers in the United States. Here we will present the linguistic point of view.

Habermas' theory is heavily influenced by concepts taken from hermeneutics and Habermas' own sociological views. For instance, Habermas uses his concept of "systematic distortion" (i.e. ideological distortion in a specific sense) and introduces it into the theory of communicative competence.

Habermas calls his view of language a "theory of communicative competence"; but even though he derives "competence" from Chomsky's "linguistic competence," the former's concept of competence is not to be …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Table Of Contents And Introduction

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

TRANSACTIONS of the NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CONTENTS

Nebraska Academy of Science, Officers, Policy Committee, Editorial Board ....................... ii

Instructions to Contributors....................... vi

ANTHROPOLOGY Calcium carbonate inclusions in pottery: Some cautions for the archaeologist RAYMOND LEICHT ....................... 1

The group foster home counselor: An anthropological analysis PATRICK F. MC CARTY ....................... 5

Man-made artifacts from the Red Willow Gravel Pits THOMAS P. MYERS ....................... 9

BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Plant galls of the vicinity of Seward, Nebraska CARL T. BRANDHORST ....................... 13

Marvinmeyerla lucida (Moore, 1954) a commensal of Helisoma trivolvis (Say) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Nebraska DANIEL R. BROOKS and …

On The Status Of The Concepts Of Masculinity And Femininity, Sarah Hoagland

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Observer bias is considerable in studies investigating differences between the characters of the sexes, partly because "masculinity" and "femininity" are not empirical concepts. Instead, they function to sort out phenomena by determining a range of significance, thus encouraging discriminatory evaluation of human action.

To support this I argue:

1. Particular character traits are assessed (valued and understood) differently depending on whether they apply to men or women.

2. Counterexamples to the generalization, "All men are masculine," are not accepted as real counterexamples, but are rather regarded as abnormal (subnormal, not rare).

Toward A Methodology For Auditing, Jack L. Krogstad

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The nature and practice of auditing is described within the context of the social, economic, and political dynamics of the last 100 years. Auditing developed upon a predominantly pragmatic foundation. Within the last decade, auditing scholars such as Mautz, Sharaf, Silvoso, Newmann, and Carmichael have attempted to undergird auditing with theoretical substance. This attempt has been hampered by the absence of an appropriate methodology. Reflection suggests that for a discipline to reach maturity, it must embrace a methodology germane to its particular needs and activities. Efforts to find such a methodology have focused exclusively on the methods of the physical …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Whole Issue

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy Of Sciences, Inc.

Policy Committee 1976 - 1977

Table Of Contents

Editorial Board

Editor's Corner

Reprints

The Future Of Free And Democratic Institutions: A Critique Of Robert L. Heilbroner's An Inquiry Into The Human Prospect, Robert E. Dewey

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

In his recent book, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, Robert L. Heilbroner argues that the current use of scientific technology by the industrialized nations is so rapidly exhausting the world's resources that free and democratic institutions must give way to authoritarian regimes with the power to control economic production, population size, and the expression of ideas, or mankind will perish. While acknowledging the seriousness of the problems noted by Heilbroner, I contend that free and democratic institutions can, and probably will, provide solutions. To support this contention, I note that Heilbroner's pessimism about our institutions is based upon …