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Bryn Mawr College

2014

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How Many Suicide Terrorists Are Suicidal?, Clark Mccauley Aug 2014

How Many Suicide Terrorists Are Suicidal?, Clark Mccauley

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Suicide terrorists in recent decades total approximately 3,500. Lankford finds risk factors for suicide for about 40 of these cases. Given that many with risk factors for suicide never attempt suicide, a reasonable estimate might be that one percent of suicide terrorists are suicidal.

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New Look At An Old Space: Participatory Design Research At A Liberal Arts College Library, Olivia Castello, Melissa K. Cresswell Jun 2014

New Look At An Old Space: Participatory Design Research At A Liberal Arts College Library, Olivia Castello, Melissa K. Cresswell

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

Anticipating major physical renovations, Bryn Mawr College recently analyzed students’ use of space in Canaday Library. We collected both qualitative and quantitative data using an innovative mixed methods, participatory research design that included student photo diaries, interactive design workshops, a patron brainstorming board, and space-usage headcounts. Our poster will illustrate the results of our qualitative and quantitative data analyses, which showed surprising patterns in students’ usage and expressed desires for the main library space. Our project will interest colleagues from peer institutions and anyone curious about what liberal arts college students want in a 21st century academic library.

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The Science Of Research Synthesis: Limiting Bias And Error In Reviews, Julia H. Littell, Brandy R. Maynard Jan 2014

The Science Of Research Synthesis: Limiting Bias And Error In Reviews, Julia H. Littell, Brandy R. Maynard

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Coping With Publication And Reporting Biases In Research Reviews, Julia H. Littell, David L. Albright Jan 2014

Coping With Publication And Reporting Biases In Research Reviews, Julia H. Littell, David L. Albright

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Systematic Review Methods: The Science Of Research Synthesis, Julia H. Littell, Brandy R. Maynard Jan 2014

Review Of Systematic Review Methods: The Science Of Research Synthesis, Julia H. Littell, Brandy R. Maynard

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Security Of Attachment To Spouses In Late Life: Concurrent And Prospective Links With Cognitive And Emotional Wellbeing, Robert J. Waldinger, Shiri Cohen, Marc S. Schulz, Judith A. Crowell Jan 2014

Security Of Attachment To Spouses In Late Life: Concurrent And Prospective Links With Cognitive And Emotional Wellbeing, Robert J. Waldinger, Shiri Cohen, Marc S. Schulz, Judith A. Crowell

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Social ties are powerful predictors of late-life health and well-being. Although many adults maintain intimate partnerships into late life, little is known about mental models of attachment to spouses and how they influence aging. A total of 81 elderly heterosexual couples (162 individuals) were interviewed to examine the structure of attachment security to their partners; respondents also completed measures of cognition and well-being concurrently and 2.5 years later. Factor analysis revealed a single factor for security of attachment. Higher security was linked concurrently with greater marital satisfaction, fewer depressive symptoms, better mood, and less frequent marital conflicts. Greater security predicted …

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The Great Recession: Implications For Adolescent Values And Behavior, Heejung Park, Jean M. Twenge, Patricia M. Greenfield Jan 2014

The Great Recession: Implications For Adolescent Values And Behavior, Heejung Park, Jean M. Twenge, Patricia M. Greenfield

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Based on Greenfield’s (2009) theory of social change and human development, we predicted that adolescents’ values, behaviors, and self-assessments would become more collectivistic and less individualistic during the Great Recession (2008-2010) compared to the pre-recession period (2004-2006) and in the context of long-term trends (1976-1978). Data came from Monitoring the Future, a nationally representative yearly survey of 12th graders. Concern for others and environmentalism increased from the pre-recession period to recession, reversing long-term declines. Long-term trends toward increasing materialism partially reversed: wanting a job making lots of money continued to increase, the increase in the importance of money leveled …

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Child Socialization Goals In Western Versus East Asian Nations From 1989 To 2010: Evidence For Social Change In Parenting, Heejung Park, Jordan A. Coello, Anna S. Lau Jan 2014

Child Socialization Goals In Western Versus East Asian Nations From 1989 To 2010: Evidence For Social Change In Parenting, Heejung Park, Jordan A. Coello, Anna S. Lau

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Objective. This study examines East Asian versus Western parents’ valuation of child socialization goals and aims to shed light on the contributions of social change and sociodemographic factors to child socialization. Design. Using global surveys of values in three waves from 1989 to 2010, we examined East Asian and Western parents’ endorsement of 10 socialization goals. Results. Contrary to the widespread individualist-collectivist dichotomy, East Asian parents were more likely than Western parents to prize canonical individualist socialization goals (e.g., independence), and Western parents were relatively higher than East Asian parents in their endorsement of obedience, unselfishness, and …

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The Role Of The Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus And The Organum Vasculosum Lateral Terminalis In The Control Of Sodium Appetite In Male Rats, Laura A. Grafe, Anne E. Takacs, Daniel K. Yee, Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato Jan 2014

The Role Of The Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus And The Organum Vasculosum Lateral Terminalis In The Control Of Sodium Appetite In Male Rats, Laura A. Grafe, Anne E. Takacs, Daniel K. Yee, Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Angiotensin II (AngII) and aldosterone cooperate centrally to produce a robust sodium appetite. The intracellular signaling and circuitry that underlie this interaction remain unspecified. Male rats pretreated with both deoxycorticosterone (DOC; a synthetic precursor of aldosterone) and central AngII exhibited a marked sodium intake, as classically described. Disruption of inositol trisphosphate signaling, but not extracellular-regulated receptor kinase 1 and 2 signaling, prevented the cooperativity of DOC and AngII on sodium intake. The pattern of expression of the immediate early gene product cFos was used to identify key brain regions that may underlie this behavior. In the paraventricular nuclei (PVN) of …

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Review: Moving Matters: Paths Of Serial Migration. Susan Ossman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013., Susanna Fioratta Jan 2014

Review: Moving Matters: Paths Of Serial Migration. Susan Ossman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013., Susanna Fioratta

Anthropology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Neoliberal Logics Of Voice: Playback Singing And Public Femaleness In South India, Amanda Weidman Jan 2014

Neoliberal Logics Of Voice: Playback Singing And Public Femaleness In South India, Amanda Weidman

Anthropology Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article explores the impact of neoliberal logics of voice on the music - making and performance practices of female playback singers in the South Indian Tamil film industry. As singers whose voices are first recorded in the studio and then “played back” on the set to be lip-synched by actors, playback singers have been professional musicians and public celebrities since the 1950s. Their careers are governed by practices of voice cultivation and by modes of performance and public self-presentation, in the studio, on stage, and increasingly in mediatized contexts. Since the 1990s, neoliberal logics of flexibility, entrepreneurship and self-marketing …

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Prospecting For New Questions: Integrating Geophysics To Define Anthropological Research Objectives And Inform Excavation Strategies At Monumental Sites, Timothy J. Horsley, Alice P. Wright, Casey R. Barrier Jan 2014

Prospecting For New Questions: Integrating Geophysics To Define Anthropological Research Objectives And Inform Excavation Strategies At Monumental Sites, Timothy J. Horsley, Alice P. Wright, Casey R. Barrier

Anthropology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Geophysical data have the potential to significantly contribute to archaeological research projects when effectively integrated with more traditional methods. Although pre-existing archaeological questions about a site may be answered using geophysical methods, beginning an investigation with an extensive geophysical survey can assist in understanding the function and archaeological potential of a site, and may even transform preconceptions about the type and spatial organisation of features that are present. In this way, these prospection tools not only accurately locate and map features to allow recovery of cultural material for identification and dating, we argue that they can go much further, allowing …

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Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 17 (2014), Bryn Mawr College Library Jan 2014

Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 17 (2014), Bryn Mawr College Library

Mirabile Dictu: Newsletter of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Exploring Kastro Kallithea On The Surface: The Foundation And Occupation Of Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly, Greece, Laura Surtees, Sophia Karapanou, Margriet J. Haagsma Jan 2014

Exploring Kastro Kallithea On The Surface: The Foundation And Occupation Of Kastro Kallithea, Thessaly, Greece, Laura Surtees, Sophia Karapanou, Margriet J. Haagsma

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Loomweights, Laura Surtees Jan 2014

Loomweights, Laura Surtees

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Herodotean Realism, Joel Alden Schlosser Jan 2014

Herodotean Realism, Joel Alden Schlosser

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

With the renaissance of political realism has come an insistence that the study of politics be historically located. While many political realists trace their conception of historical inquiry to Thucydides, this article shows how Herodotus can offer a more realist approach to political phenomena. Herodotus crafts a self-conscious form of historical inquiry that foregrounds the actual activity of the historian as intersubjective, reflective, and particular. Herodotus thus models a historical investigation that shows its own limits while demanding the evaluation of its readers, offering a way to address criticisms of political realism’s singular and unacknowledged historical narratives. Moreover, Herodotus’s Histories …

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Shifting Gears: Industrial Policy And Automotive Industry After The 2008 Financial Crisis, Seung-Youn Oh Jan 2014

Shifting Gears: Industrial Policy And Automotive Industry After The 2008 Financial Crisis, Seung-Youn Oh

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

Apart from being one of the hardest hit sectors during the 2008 financial crisis, the auto sector is also a prominent sector where emerging auto markets such as China have fared relatively well compared to their competitors in North America and Europe. This paper examines various ways that nations have shifted their policy gears to revive and restructure the automotive industry by using the case studies of the USA, France, and China. New sets of policy initiatives are contingent on particular industrial and institutional contexts, but both developed and developing countries have employed wide range of “murky” protectionist measures. This …

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Global Health, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Jessica Euna Lee Jan 2014

Global Health, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Jessica Euna Lee

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

Within its 150 year history, public health has grown from a focus on local communities, to include country-wide, then international and now global perspectives. Using the United Nation’s Millennium Goals as its primary framework, this article provides an overview of global public health within the broadest possible context of the world and all of its peoples. Also provided are discussions of the global burden of disease as measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), global health statistics, current health priorities and recommendations for action by social workers and other health professionals.

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Teaching Comparative Political Thought: Joys, Pitfalls, Strategies, Significance, Stephen Salkever Jan 2014

Teaching Comparative Political Thought: Joys, Pitfalls, Strategies, Significance, Stephen Salkever

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article reflects on my experience over the past twenty-five years in teaching undergraduate courses in comparative political theory, focusing primarily on texts from ancient China and ancient Greece. I focus on the promise and the difficulties of such courses, and offer suggestions for avoiding the latter, based upon my sense of the defining purpose of such teaching: not the development of a disciplinary specialty or sub-specialty, nor the theoretical promotion or underpinning of a political agenda, but as providing a key element of liberal education in a rapidly globalizing world.

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