University Professors at Mid-life: Being a Part of . . . But Feeling Apart

The feeling of being stared at: An analysis and replication

When data generated in “the feeling of being stared at” experiments are adjusted to account for response biases, hit rates associated with responding “yes” when being stared at, and “no” when not being stared at, are virtually identical. Experiments conducted where the possibility of such cues were reduced showed similar results, arguing against sensory artifacts. In a computer-based replicatio...

Being human is a gut feeling

Some metagenomic studies have suggested that less than 10% of the cells that comprise our bodies are Homo sapiens cells. The remaining 90% are bacterial cells. The description of this so-called human microbiome is of great interest and importance for several reasons. For one, it helps us redefine what a biological individual is. We suggest that a human individual is now best described as a supe...

A generation apart? Gender-related experiences and health in women in early and late mid-life.

There have been a number of critiques in the last few years of the prevailing paradigm of research on gender and health, which dominated in the latter part of the 20th century. One such criticism has centred on the a historic and decontextualised way in which much evidence for gender differences has been used. In this paper we aim to show that, even within a relatively confined geographical loc...

The Ideological Orientations of Canadian University Professors

This paper analyzes the ideological orientations of Canadian university professors based on a unique 2000 study of a representative sample of Canadian academics (n=3,318). After summarizing methodological problems with extant research on this subject, and tentatively comparing the political views of Canadian and American academics, the paper demonstrates that Canadian academics fall to the left...

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