Showing papers by "Boise State University published in 1979"

Nautilus movement and distribution in palau, Western caroline islands.

Abstract: Long-term movement of up to 150 kilometers in 332 days by tagged, living Nautilus, and postmortem shell drift of 1000 kilometers in 138 days, corroborate and explain the cosmopolitan distribution of many fossil shelled cephalopods

Identification asymmetry of parafoveal stimulus pairs

Abstract: Three experiments, involving 8, 10, and 10 naive participants, respectively, were conducted to examine the phenomenon in which the peripheral member of a parafoveally appearing stimulus pair is more accurately identified than the central. In the first experiment, the asymmetry was observed with stimulus pairs which had but one distinguishing feature; this could have implications for the notion that feature perturbations between stimuli provide the basis for the effect. The second experiment eliminated an explanation based upon acuity at the position of the midpoint of the stimulus configuration, since the asymmetry remains when this position is held constant. The involvement of response or decision factors seems unlikely, since the third experiment found the effect with blocked presentations involving responses to only one member of the pair. It is concluded that accounts which appeal to difficulties in separating stimuli from the overall pair configuration fail to explain more accurate identification of the peripheral stimulus when the pair is positioned at a constant distance from fixation.

Correlates of Loneliness among Widows Bereaved in a Mining Disaster

Abstract: From interviews with 44 widows of victims of the 1972 Sunshine Mine disaster (Idaho) and comparison samples of wives of survivors of the fire and of miners employed in other mines two types of lone...

An Investigation of Returns to Different Shopping Strategies

Abstract: This paper investigates five alternative shopping strategies for acquiring various shopping goods. Both transportation costs and time requirements are examined. The alternative strategies that are examined are based upon random search, minimum travel search, perceived low price, telephone search, and combinations of the above.

Child abuse and the excessive control of aggression

Abstract: The understanding of child abuse causation will require careful analyses of the complex reciprocal interactions between abused children and their caretakers. One possible component of that interaction is the concept of overcontrolled hostility. This is the notion that, having excessively high inhibitory processes, e.g., anxiety, some individuals may refrain from voluntarily expressing even mild forms of aggressiveness. The result is the gradual building up of hostile impulses over time, to the extent that violent, uncontrolled behavior may eventually be shown with but minimal provocation (Megargee, 1969). The basic reason for suspecting excessive inhibition as a factor in the etiology of child abuse is that existing data on the personality characteristics of abusing parents simply do not suggest persons with inadequate impulse control or pervasive outward hostility. On the contrary, child abusers generally appear to be somewhat shy and socially withdrawn (see Melnick & Hurley, 1969). A causal link between over-controlled hostility and child abuse would suggest a counter-inmitive approach to therapeutic intervencion. Clearly, given the tenability of the hypothesis of excessive inhibition, therapy designed to increase aggression-related anxiety would compound the problem. The treatment of choice might therefore involve teaching parents to express mild to moderate forms of aggressiveness in socially acceptable ways (see Wolpe, 1969). Empirical assessment is possible and desirable.