OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate interpretation bias in people with dependent personality traits. METHOD Eight Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards were administered to participants (N=56) who scored high or low on DSM-III-R dependent personality pathology. Two independent judges rated the TAT stories using a rating list based on the cognitive model of the dependent and par...

IMPORTANCE Operating room (OR) turnaround times (TATs) and on-time first-case starts (FCSs) are commonly used measures of OR efficiency. Prolonged TATs and late FCSs occur frequently at academic medical centers. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that establishing a financial incentive program (FIP) for OR teams would improve efficiency, leading to decreased TATs and improved on-time FCSs. DE...

Vol. XLV (August 2008), 487–498 487 © 2008, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Tat Chan is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: Chan@ wustl.edu), and Chakravarthi Narasimhan is Philip L. Siteman Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis. Qin Zhang is Assistant Professor of ...

The quality and stability of sibling relationships during adulthood were assessed by comparing TAT themes of sibling affiliation, conflict, and separation at the period of active child-rearing (CR) and the empty nest (EN). Thirty men and thirty women, divided equally between the two life stages, were randomly selected from a pool of individuals who had a same-sex, closely-spaced sibling. The Si...

Long-term memory formation is believed to involve alterations of synaptic efficacy. It has been shown that GluR1-containing AMPA receptors are inserted into synapses following stimuli leading to plasticity and that GluR2/GluR3-containing receptors replace existing synaptic AMPA receptors continuously and may act to maintain synaptic efficacy. Maintaining GluR2/GluR3 receptors level in synapse r...

Three studies describe the development, psychometric properties, and potential utility of a new self-report measure, the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values (CSIV). The CSIV was designed to complement other interpersonal circumplex measures that assess interpersonal behavior by efficiently assessing a comprehensive set of agentic and communal values. The eight 8-item scales of the CSIV we...

The first experiment in this series (7) attempted to measure the effects of different intensities of the hunger drive on perception for which the objective determinants had been reduced to a minumum. Its purpose was to seek any principles which might govern the relationship between need intensity and its expression in perception. The results provided clues as to how perceptual material should b...