Explanations and Implications of ‘Psychophysical’ Acting

Physiological implications of psychophysical data.

Hearing voices: explanations and implications.

Integrating information on voice hearing from multiple disciplines and perspectives, we review current explanatory models and their implications for intervention strategies. Far from always signifying a mental illness, voice hearing may result from other causes, including drug side effects, brain lesions, and culturally-sanctioned phenomena. Accordingly, a wide range of assessment, intervention...

Retinitis pigmentosa: a psychophysical test of explanations for early foveal sensitivity loss.

A psychophysical procedure, the probe-flash paradigm, was used to test explanations of early foveal sensitivity loss in retinitis pigmentosa. The findings suggest that this loss may be due to a decreased responsiveness of retinal elements and not to a decrease in quantum catching ability of functioning photoreceptors.

Eating Disorders in Women of Color: Explanations and Implications

Over the past few years, there has been increasing evidence of disordered eating occurring among racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. Contrary to the persistent belief that eating disorders affect only young, white women, analysis of the Minnesota Adolescent Health Study found that dieting was associated with weight dissatisfaction, perceived overweight, and low body pride in all ...

Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: Associations, explanations, and implications.

Many of the links of religiousness with health, well-being, and social behavior may be due to religion's influences on self-control or self-regulation. Using Carver and Scheier's (1998) theory of self-regulation as a framework for organizing the empirical research, the authors review evidence relevant to 6 propositions: (a) that religion can promote self-control; (b) that religion influences ho...