Several of our studies indicate that persuasive-arguments theory by itself is an adequate explanation of polarization. Sanders and Baron (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1977,13,303-314) criticize this research. More generally, they contend that both argumentation and comparison are involved, “with persuasive arguments facilitating the shifts motivated by social comparison.” We feel ...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2001;14:378–384 Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is an ancient affliction of unknown origin. It is defined by Dorland as shortening, thickening, and fibrosis of the palmar fascia producing a flexion deformity of a finger. Tradition has it that the disease originated with the Vikings, who spread it throughout Northern Europe and beyond as they traveled and intermarried. After being pres...

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A young anorectic woman suffering from asthma since her early childhood exacerbated without obvious cause and did not respond to treatment. Body plethysmography showed an isolated huge increase of the expiratory resistance. During inspiration, resistance was not elevated. However, in 1 out of 3 successive manoeuvres, expiratory resistance was completely normal. We believe this to be a Munchhaus...

OSITIVE results in attempts to hybridize Salmonella strains with Escherichia Ipcoli K-12 were first reported by BARON and his colleagues (BARON, SPILMAN and CAREY 1959; BARON, CAREY and SPILMAN 1959), and we have also observed this phenomenon with a Salmonella typhimurium wild-type strain LT-7 carrying the mutator gene mut (MIYAKE and DEMEREC 1959; MIYAKE 1959, 1960). This paper supplies more d...

The authors propose that experiments that utilize mediational analyses as suggested by R. M. Baron and D. A. Kenny (1986) are overused and sometimes improperly held up as necessary for a good social psychological paper. The authors argue that when it is easy to manipulate and measure a proposed psychological process that a series of experiments that demonstrates the proposed causal chain is sup...