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The Role Of Anxiety And Arousal Attribution In Cheating, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Previous research indicated that anticipating arousal symptoms (rather than benign) from a placebo pill reduced inhibiting emotion in men, resulting in more cheating. The effect did not occur for women. Using 180 males, Study I tested whether the placebo effect was due to mere attention to arousal symptoms, or whether attribution to the pill was required. In the placebo- attribution condition the arousal placebo facilitated cheating (p < .02). The effect did not occur for symptom-attention controls who received no pill, and the conditions differed (p < .02).Study II tested whether women failed to respond to the placebo manipulation due to higher anxiety. Under one of four stress levels, each of 240 women received the benign or arousal placebo. More cheated with the arousal placebo only under low stress (p <.035), and stress conditions differed (p < .025). The interaction of attribution manipulations with the conflicting emotions of the cheating situation is discussed.

Surveillance Of Legal Abortions In The United States, 1970, Judith Bourne, James Kahn, S. Beach Conger, Carl Tyler Jr.

Public Health Resources

In 1969, a series of epidemiologic studies for abortion in the United States was begun at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Unwanted pregnancy is one of the most prevalent and potent public health problems in this and many other countries, and in almost all societies abortion is an inevitable concomitant of unwanted pregnancies.

In 1970 we concentrated primarily on three aspects of the rapidly changing phenomenon of abortion in the United States, attempting first to ascertain how many legal abortions are performed and where they are performed; second to describe the population of women who obtain …

A Modified Belief Theory Of Prejudice Emphasizing The Mutual Causality Of Racial Prejudice And Anticipated Belief Differences, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The belief theory of prejudice introduced by M. Rokeach stated that racial prejudice is the result of the anticipation of belief differences. The unidirectional causal relationship implied is criticized as oversimplified. Research, supporting the belief theory is examined, with conceptual and experimental deficiencies noted. A new formulation is proposed which emphasizes mutual causality between racial prejudice and anticipated belief differences. Two studies supporting that view are presented in which belief communications were presented as tape-recorded interviews or speeches, with the race and social class of the communicator first having been manipulated. The interrelationships between communicator’s race, specific communication topic, and …

Namru-3 Translations Of Parasite Literature From Russian, French, Japanese, Etc. Into English (1910-1972) T501-T600, United States Naval Medical Research Unit Number Three, Cairo, Medical Zoology Department

United States Naval Medical Research Unit 3: Publications

T501. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN. SOKOLOVA, E. I., MIRZOEVA, N. M., KULIEVA, N. M., SULTANOVA, Z. D. and KANBAY, I. G. (1971). Ecological data on possible arboviral infection in the focus of Sabirabad Region, Azerbaijan SSR. Tezisy Dokl. Vop. Med. Virus., Inst. Virus. imeni Ivanovsky, D. I., Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR (October 19-21), pt. 2; 109-110.

T502. TRANSLATION FROM RUSSIAN. BUTENKO, A. M. and CHUMAKOV, M. P. (1971). Isolation of Astra arbovirus new for USSR from H. plumbeum ticks and A. hyrcanus mosquitoes in Astrakhan Oblast. Tezisy Dokl. Vop. Med. Virus., Inst. Virus. imeni Ivanovsky, D. I., Akad. Med. Nauk SSSR …