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Subject: Jenny Jones
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:42:00 GMT
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Jenny Jones is a commedianne who got her own talk show not too long ago.
Originally, it was very directed toward women, and fun topics.  It was
typically light-hearted, and didn't get into the tabloid stuff some talk
shows do or the really serious political/social issues others do.  I kinda
liked it.  But apparently, her time slot has been moved from mid-afternoon
to something like 1 am and the format has been completely changed.  I have
not seen it since this change, so I don't know what it's like now.

btw, it's an american show, though I don't know if it's being shown in the
UK or not.

Elizabeth in Chicago
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From:         "(Eric Zorrilla)" <zorrilla@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Help with Hippocampi

> probably all heard it.  Among the functions under the hippocampus' control are
> a set called the "Four 'F' Functions".  They are: Fighting, Feeding, Fleeing
> and Mating.  :-)

Like the joke.  But, I think you mean the hypothalamus.  Let's not get
our neuroendocrine system mixed up with our limbic system.  :)

Eric
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Elizabeth in Chicago writes...

>Jenny Jones is a commedianne who got her own talk show not too long ago.
>Originally, it was very directed toward women, and fun topics.

Thanks to everyone who responded.  I already knew about the American Jenny
Jones.  I suppose I should have made that clear.  In fact, I was misinformed
about the Jenny Jones to which I WAS refering.  She is the producer of an
upcoming BBC documentary, not the host of a series, as I was told.  The
documentary she is producing is on, I believe, interspecies communication.  She
was here at CWU filming the chimps in the Chimpanzee-Human Communication
Institute before going to the Yerkes Regional Primate Center at Emory U. to see
the Rumbaugh's.  If anyone is interested I can find out what the name of the
documentary will be and when it's scheduled for release.

Don Gallogly
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From:         Eric Zorrilla <zorrilla@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Help with Hippocampi
              Nov 12, 92 5:52 pm

> Also, a colleague
> in Wisconsin has some data which suggests that prenatal
> exposure to high doses of corticoids (for ex, by stressing
> the gestating mother) can damage and destroy embryonic
> hippocampal tissue.

Kathy,

        Could you post this precise reference?  I'm doing some prenatal
work on immune system development (stress' effects on) as well as building
a model of schizophrenia through some of the same methods and this is
HIGHLY relevant.

Eric
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From:         Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: feminists

Re questions on feminismts:
Seems like you have it pretty clearly. All this has been an excellent
demonstration of these effects.  And the lost word was humorless.
But I don't think the feminists take the cake. Seems like the
religious ultra-right anti-abortion folks get the gold medal.
T.
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From:         Betty Harris <B1H6017@TAMVENUS.BITNET>
Subject:      Discrete Choice Modeling

Hume,

>I'm looking for Theoretical contributions, Measurement techniques and,
>especially,  Forecasting or Prediction techniques.

>I've become somewhat of an expert in Conjoint Analysis techniques, so I
>guess I'm more interested in alternative theoretical perspectives and
>prediction.

One article that you might find interesting is:

Davidson, A. R., & Morrison, D. M. (1983).  Predicting Contrceptive
   Behavior from Attitudes:  A Comparison of Within- versus
   Across-Subjects Procedures.  Journal of Personality and Social
   Psychology, 45(5), 997-1009.

Within-subjects.. the person will choose the behavior that they
 have the more positive attitude toward, amongst salient competing
 behaviors.  In other words... I'll choose the behavior that I
 feel most positive toward from all the behaviors that I could
 perform in that situation.

Across-subjects.. people with more positive attitudes toward the
 criterion behavior should be more likely to perform that behavior
 than those with less positive attitudes (The standard approach
 in the literature).

From measures of cognition, affect, and conation, they show that
predicting choice behavior using the within-subjects approach
accounts or more variance (Median Phi Square = .71) than the
traditional across subjects prediction (Median Phi Square = .55).
(Note that these are equivalent to r SQUARE, not r!!)

Betty
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Subject:      Re: Help with Hippocampi

Ramie,

        This is fascinating!!!  My interests are in the
hippocampus and stress--specifically, individual differences
in reactivity (read "arousal") in response to stressful
events.  One thing I know about the hippocampus in this
regard is that it sucks up radiotagged corticosteriods and
glucocorticoids (released by the adrenal cortex when an
animal is stressed) like they were candy.  Also, a colleague
in Wisconsin has some data which suggests that prenatal
exposure to high doses of corticoids (for ex, by stressing
the gestating mother) can damage and destroy embryonic
hippocampal tissue.
        Wow!  I've been reading _Wet Mind_ and have really
been turned on by the new interpretations of the old idea
that complex systems are really based on profoundly simple
ones.  Could it be that attention and arousal are some of
those basic systems, upon which systems like learning,
attachment, depression, etc. are based??
        Keep me informed!
        --Kathy Morgan
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Subject:      Re: feminists

Stephanie,

        I have a slightly different personal definition of
"feminist," but I think we need to know what Tim means by
"feminist" in his comments before we can ask if those
comments are appropriate.

        So Tim, for the third time, who do you mean when you
say "bitter, anry, and (damn, I forgot that last one again!!)
feminists?"

        --Kathy Morgan
        kmorgan@wheatnma.bitnet
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Subject: help with serotonin subtype binding
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:01:39 GMT
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I'm in over my head on a lit review for neuropsych (topic:suicide).  Can
anyone tell me if the subtypes for 5-HT receptors have functionally
different consequences?  For example, if there is an increase or decrease
in a particular region for 5-HT-subtype-1a binding site, does that indicate
that the entire serotonergic system is dysfunctional or that just that
subtype of 5-HT is dysfunctional?

I'm not even literate enough to ask the question correctly, to be sure.
Please someone help me.... please.
Jennifer
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From:         "Matthew Simpson" <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Sexism and language a la Preferential T
              10 Nov 1992 17:07:00 PST from <lindberg@PSYCH.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU>

On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:07:00 PST Someone said:
>     According to Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English
>Language, female IS a noun ["A human being of the sex which becomes pregnant
>and gives birth to young"  (sic!!!)].

Do you have a better definition to offer the dictionary?  Remember, the
definition must adequately discriminate the organism as only being female.
What is your complaint about the definition?  How is the definition
different from the definition for "male," besides the essential
discrimination between the two forms of the species?

--Matthew Simpson
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From:         "Kathryn Irene Snyder" <IRENES@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Attenuating the unintended insult (flame)

Just a query:
Is it now policy that all potentially controversial posts be identiied
as "flames"? There's something to be said for self-censorship, I suppose
...
Irene
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Subject: Re: Preferential treatment


>I am really glad that there are an increasing number of men out there that
>realize that women are capable of achieving goals other than motherhood.
>Please do not see the term 'good old boys' as a classification to all men,
>for it certainly is not.  If you can think of another term that is not
>quite so offending to you (or others) please tell me what it might be.
>Tammy

     I usually call them jerks, Tammy.

                                    ---Jason
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Subject: Re: Help!! Lost Exam!!
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Kathy and others in this situation,

I have had this happen several times in the classes I have taught. First,
it is extremely important that the student actually took the exam - especially
if it is in a large class.  Most of the time this resolved the problem.
     However, if you absolutely know the student took the test and you somehow
misplaced it IMHO I would award the student an A, there is no other way you
could be fair to the student. Of course the problem then arises when the rest
of the class finds out about it. In addition I examine other test scores and
other work handed in. I have been teaching for 2 years now courses from
introduction to statistics and I have found that undergraduate can be
exceedingly clever at times. But, if youd know that it was your fault, and
not some clever trick, then giving an A is the only fair and just approach
that I know of.  Hopefully, this has helped if only a little.


Clayton Wells  -  Arizona State University
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Subject:      Re: Preferential treatment

On 9 November, Jesse writes:

>I think that the most serious and dangerous part of the whole
>story is that now that it has become unacceptable to
>discriminate, the discrimination has moved to the realm of
>complete subtleness.  How does one battle something that is
>NOT supposed to exist?

        No kidding!  Just ask Anita Hill about the EEOC and
discrimination!  It's one of the hardest cases to prove in a
court of law (or in a Senate Committee Hearing!)  :}

--Kathy Morgan
kmorgan@wheatnma.bitnet
where I apologize for my hopelessly white middle-class
American melting pot background daily!
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Subject: LOST EXAM FOLLOW-UP: I found it!
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This is a sincere thank you to all those who wrote to me promptly
and with sympathy and ideas about this problem.  Fortunately i WAS
able to find this exam, but it sure was useful to read suggestions
for how to handle it if I had not.  Thanks again!

--Kathy Morgan
kmorgan@wheatnma.bitnet
From: fishkin@SCF.USC.EDU (Stephanie Fishkin)
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              12, 92 10:21 am

RE:  Going to the woods and beating drums.

That's fine with me as long as the men are not engaging in the "female-bashing"
which I understand is part of this "ritual".  In her book Backlash,
Susan Faludi (granted not the most objective perspecitve on this topic)
discusses Robert Bly's Real Men movement.  I won't go into grave detail
here, but she talks about how the underlying "theory" is that women have
made men soft and men need to reassert their "rightful" dominance.

SF


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From:         "Matthew Simpson" <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      Intellectual challenge in the classroom vs. TV passivity

On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:21:00 EDT Someone said:
>I am worried that some of the students that I see
>in my classes don't have ADD, but rather, are just plain
>motivationally or intellectually impaired.

Impaired as much as they might be bored with what they have never learned
to do.  I find that most teachers are too lecture-like.  They just give
the students the info in the class.  After that, it is up to the
students to receive it.  How many classes have we all taken where the
teacher says s/he wants participation, yet provides no opportunity for
it in the class?

Students need and want a good kick in the pants.  Make them think on their
feet, holding them accountable on the spot; not for the answers, but for
*some* thought.  I think teachers are too worried about traumatizing the
few students who really would feel uncomfortable taking out loud in class.
The sacrifice is lack of stimulation, lack of desensitization, and lack
of in-class enthusiasm.  Ever wonder why students become real people on the
day of the exam?  (This is one of my soapboxes).

Ask students questions in class while calling them by name!
Get into debates around key issues!  Call to them to think more!
Tell them this is not a television show, where all you do is watch
passively!  Say it in the exclamatory tone of voice!  If they don't
get challenged in the classroom, how are they supposed to be invited
to think?!

If you do this, it may take a while for each class to catch on.  It may
not seem to sink in at first.  They may catch your enthusiasm years
after having taken your class, someday, in a lecture, among hundreds.

I thank God for Mrs. Rita Weiss at Alton High School, Alton, Illinois.
We all left her class with her boot print on our butts.

Have fun!

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Subject:      Re: Preferential treatment

on 7 November, Larry writes:

>If science is male dominated, does it follow that psychology
is as
>well?

        I think Psychology IS dominated by men--that's the
observation/suggestion/whathaveyou that started this lively
discussion!

>...women are clearly not powerless here...

        I agree!  There are many women who are their female
colleagues' worst enemies!  That in part is what Nangel was
warning us about.  Frankly, I find these women scarier and
more disturbing than the men who speak and act similarly.  A
classic (though extreme) example:  Phyllis Schlafly (I had
the "pleasure" of hearing her speak last spring at my
college).

        --Kathy Morgan
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Subject: Re: Help! Low frequency words

Jesse writes...

>I'm afraid that to the best of my knowledge, Kucera & Francis
>(1967) is still the word list in current use, and it sounds like
>your friend already has it.

Actually there is a newer version by Francis and Kucera (1982) which I was able
to find for her along with several others.  Thanks for the tip, though.  The
research that she is replicating, in part, was conducted in the mid-60s and
many of the "infrequent words" they used have connotations or are no longer
infrequent.  One of those is "fag".  It's obvious that she can't use that but
there were others as well, prompting her to look for a newer scale.  Thank you
all for your suggestions, we'd appreciate any more.

Don
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              92 04:37:00 pm

In your message, you write:
=>
=> Help!  I've committed that most dreaded of all sins--I've apparently
=> lost a student's exam!  What should I do?  Require them to take it
=> again?  Average their remaining exams?  Give them an automatic A?  I
=> feel that I should not penalize them for what was MY mistake!
=> Seriously, I need some advice--NOW!
=>
	Ouch!

	My best suggestion would be to tell the student what happened and
offer them the choice of retaking the exam or accepting an exam grade equal
to their average on the remaining exams plus 1/2 grade ("good day"
assumption) bump. Of course, if the student is a consistent "A" student,
then just granting an "A" is safe enough.

	Just tell the student that the dog ate it!


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Subject:      RE: Preferential treatment

Julia, I too have experienced the same sports talk in classes. I have
also been a "football widow" and got tired of it. So I learned the
game. I held season tickets to the Raiders for five years (too poor now)
and I can hold my own when the subject comes up. What I have found is
and this is my point the males that I interact with have a greater
respect for me and my opinions (inside and outside the world of sports).
Linda
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From:         "Gerri Oppedisano (8-863-7225)" <gerri@WATSON.IBM.COM>

> >I am really glad that there are an increasing number of men out there that
> >realize that women are capable of achieving goals other than motherhood.
> >Please do not see the term 'good old boys' as a classification to all men,
> >for it certainly is not.  If you can think of another term that is not
> >quite so offending to you (or others) please tell me what it might be.
> >Tammy
>
>     I usually call them jerks, Tammy.

It'd probably be better to just call their ideas jerks, instead of them
personally. Let me say that I find the Good Old Boy Concept a positively
jerky one!

... Sorry, I just couldn't resist.. (-:
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From:         "(Margaret Joppa)" <joppa@PSYCH.PURDUE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Preferential treatment

To Jennifer and Tammy, who want credit for brilliant work as accomplished
by women, I would like to point out to you that there are people out there,
probably more than you realize, who will NOT respect your work, no matter
how excellent, simply because you are a woman!  You will be criticized
more harshly than your male collegues even if you are twice as bright as
them, since science is a male dominated field.  Therefore I think limiting
you first name to an initial on grant or postdoc applications and papers
is a legitimate way to prevent this discrimination.
Margaret