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Jayanti Basu

Bio: Jayanti Basu is an academic researcher from University of Calcutta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Academic achievement & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 20 publications receiving 99 citations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the similarities and differences in the desired physical and psychological characteristics of lovers and cross-sex friends among college students, and found that women put greater emphasis on psychological characteristics while men emphasized physical traits to a greater extent.
Abstract: The present paper examines the nature of the similarities and differences in the desired physical and psychological characteristics of lover and cross-sex friend among college students. Fourteen physical and twenty five psychological traits were presented to 160 Bengali Hindu college students who rated them in terms of their desirability in either a date or a cross sex friend. Results indicated that women put greater emphasis on psychological characteristics, while men emphasized physical traits to a greater extent. However considerable overlap across sex and target was also observed. Differences and similarities with Western studies have been highlighted. The findings seem to partially support both the evolutionary hypothesis and the social learning model.

7 citations

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TL;DR: This study explored the role of 12 ego functions in relation to Stressful Life Events and three indices of psychopathology, namely, Psychoticism, Anxiety, and Depression among 60 Bengali adult patients suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia.
Abstract: This study explored the role of 12 ego functions in relation to Stressful Life Events and three indices of psychopathology, namely, Psychoticism, Anxiety, and Depression among 60 Bengali adult patients suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia. Adapted versions of Bellak's Ego Function Assessment-M, Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to them. Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that Object Relation was associated with all three indices. Scores on Reality Testing correlated with those on Psychoticism, Stressful Life Events and scores on Thought Process with Anxiety, and Stressful Life Events, Sense of Reality, and scores on Defensive Functions with Depression. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that Object Relation also moderated between stressful life events and anxiety.

4 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to determine whether the general intelligence, cognitive processes, school achievement, and intelligence-achievement relationship of adolescents with subclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms differed from those of their normal counterparts.
Abstract: The aim of the study was to determine whether the general intelligence, cognitive processes, school achievement, and intelligence-achievement relationship of adolescents with subclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms differed from those of their normal counterparts. From an initial large pool of 14-year-old Bengali students in eighth grade, 110 girls and 100 boys were finally selected. The Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the Children's Obsessional Compulsive Inventory were used to exclude those with clinical levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and to identify those with subclinical levels of obsessive-compulsive symptoms as differentiated from the typically developed adolescents. The participants were administered the Standard Progressive Matrices for assessing general intelligence and Sumon's Attention Memory Module to assess memory-related variables and span of attention. School achievement was assessed from school records from the last two years. Intelligence-achieve...

2 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of long-term regular meditation in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD) have been studied, and longitudinal symmetrized percentage changes (SPC) in cortical thickness (CT) and gray matter volume (GMV) were estimated.
Abstract: Previous cross-sectional studies reported positive effects of meditation on the brain areas related to attention and executive function in the healthy elderly population. Effects of long-term regular meditation in persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease dementia (AD) have rarely been studied. In this study, we explored changes in cortical thickness (CT) and gray matter volume (GMV) in meditation-naive persons with MCI or mild AD after long-term meditation intervention. MCI or mild AD patients underwent detailed clinical and neuropsychological assessment and were assigned into meditation or non-meditation groups. High resolution T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) were acquired at baseline and after six months. Longitudinal symmetrized percentage changes (SPC) in cortical thickness (CT) and gray matter volume (GMV) were estimated. Left caudal middle frontal, left rostral middle frontal, left superior parietal, right lateral orbitofrontal, and right superior frontal cortices showed changes in both CT and GMV; the left paracentral cortex showed changes in CT; the left lateral occipital, left superior frontal, left banks of the superior temporal sulcus (bankssts), and left medial orbitofrontal cortices showed changes in GMV. All these areas exhibited significantly higher SPC values in meditators as compared to non-meditators. Conversely, the left lateral occipital, and right posterior cingulate cortices showed significantly lower SPC values for cortical thickness in the meditators. In hippocampal subfields analysis, we observed significantly higher SPC in GMV of the left CA1, molecular layer HP, and CA3 with a trend for increased GMV in most other areas. No significant changes were found for the hippocampal subfields in the right hemisphere. Analysis of the subcortical structures revealed significantly increased volume in the right thalamus in the meditation group. The results of the study point out that long-term meditation practice in persons with MCI or mild AD leads to salutary changes in cortical thickness and gray matter volumes. Most of these changes were observed in the brain areas related to executive control and memory that are prominently at risk in neurodegenerative diseases.

2 citations


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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

1,125 citations

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01 Jan 1951

519 citations

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TL;DR: There was no association with eye dominance, and therefore the Coren and Porac finding could not be repeated, but there was however a very significant association with handedness, left-handed subjects tending to report that the stimulus in the right eye looked larger, and right- handed subjects reporting that the stimuli in the left eye looked smaller.

170 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that conspicuous consumption serves as a means by which men communicate their social status to prospective mates, and that men's endocrinological responses, particularly their testosterone levels, are responsive to fluctuations in their status as triggered by acts of conspicuous consumption.

132 citations

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TL;DR: In wondering the things that you should do, reading can be a new choice of you in making new things as discussed by the authors. And it's always said that reading will always help you to overcome something to better.

124 citations