In 1984, professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeated the Iron Sheik to win WWF Heavyweight Title. Thus marked birth of ‘Hulkamania’, a near-decade-long period when (real name Terry Bollea) crossed over into American popular culture. following years, battled series proxies for America’s enemies, from Soviet rival in Nikolai Volkoff, Iranian sympathizer Sergeant Slaughter, and Japanese sumo Yokozun...

Intent-to-treat analyses are warranted in clinical trials, which usually contain right-censored data due to treatment failures or dropouts. An explanatory analysis, easily achieved with PROC MIXED, assumes data missing at random, which is not the case in clinical trials since the dropouts are often associated with the treatment assignments (Little and Rubin, 1987). A pragmatic analysis (Hogan a...

This research reports the development and validation of the Self-Defeating Interpersonal Style Scale (SELF-DISS), a measure for the assessment of the propensity to engage in the chronic tolerance of mistreatment in relationships. Studies 1 and 2 followed a strategical 7-step process for developing valid and reliable measures. Study 1 proposed a theoretical model and developed a reliable measure...