Cohabitation is one aspect of the overall changes in family patterns occurring in the United States. This ever increasing trend implies an arrangement where a couple lives together in an intimate relationship without legal sanction. Most research on the subject has been focused on the effects of cohabiting relationships, upon marriage, for example (Kamp Dush et al. 2003, Smock 2000, Stanley et ...

Populations of many fish species are sensitive to changes in vital rates during early life stages, but our understanding of the factors affecting growth, survival, and movement patterns is often extremely limited for juvenile fish. These critical information gaps are particularly evident for bull trout Salvelinus confluentus, a threatened Pacific Northwest char. We combined several active and p...

Background: Between 2% and 5% of malignant germ-cell tumors in men arise at extragonadal sites. Of extragonadal germ cell tumors, testicular carcinoma in situ (CIS) are present in 31-42% of cases, and CIS are reported to have low sensitivity to chemotherapy in spite of the various morphology and to have a high likelihood of developing into testicular tumors. A testicular biopsy may thus be high...

•A bioinspired 5-step synthetic pathway to ten complex merocytochalasans•A [5+2] cycloaddition was applied forge the bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienone scaffold•Sunlight-promoted [2+2] and acyloin rearrangement•PMe3 initiated MBH-type reaction Although target-oriented synthesis can be effectively used achieve syntheses of specific natural products, divergent a series structurally biogenetically related ...

The current study used an online self-report survey to examine libido, promiscuity, heavy drinking, and anxious attachment as predictors of sexting in college students. Participants were 178 University of Rochester undergraduates (82% female) from the psychology subject pool. Before accounting for our controls of relationship status and unlimited texting, libido was significantly associated wit...

In support interactions between two people the level of agreement between the amount of support provided and the amount of support received can have important implications about the quality and the effectiveness of the interaction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which attachment style predicts agreement between married couples regarding the occurrence of specific sup...

A review of the use of experimental techniques to develop and test theories of personality processes. Threats to valid inference including problems of scaling, reliability, and unintended confounds are considered. Basic experimental designs are discussed as ways of eliminating some, but not all threats to validity. A number of basic analytical procedures are demonstrated using simulated data th...

Determinism has long been a core assumption in many forms of behaviorism, including radical behaviorism. However, this assumption has been a stumbling block for many— both within and outside the field of radical behaviorism—resulting in misunderstanding and misrepresentation. The following paper provides a descriptive taxonomy of four kinds of determinism assumed or asserted in the radical beha...

This content analytic study investigated the approaches of two mainstream newspapers—The New York Times and theChicago Tribune—to cover the gay marriage issue. The study used the Massachusetts legitimization of gay marriage as a dividing point to look at what kinds of specific political or social topics related to gay marriage were highlighted in the news media. The study examined how news sour...

In recent years, a robust movement has emerged within psychology to increase the evidentiary value of our science. This movement, which has analogs throughout the empirical sciences, is broad and diverse, but its primary emphasis has been on the reduction of statistical false positives. The present article addresses epistemological and pragmatic issues that we, as a field, must consider as we s...