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Traditional Attitudes (traditional + attitude)
Selected AbstractsDifferences in personality characteristics between body-modified and non-modified individuals: associations with individual personality traits and their possible evolutionary implicationsEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, Issue 7 2007Silke Wohlrab Abstract After a long history of negative stigmatisation, the practices of tattooing and body piercing have become fashionable in the last decade. Today, 10% of the population in modern western societies have some form of body modification. The aim of this study was to quantify the demographic and personality traits of tattooed and pierced individuals and to compare them with a control group of individuals without body modifications. These comparisons are based on questionnaires completed by 359 individuals that investigate the details of body modification, and which incorporate five personality scales. We describe several sex differences in ornament style and location. We found no relevant differences between modified and non-modified individuals in relation to demographic variables. This indicates that some of the traditional attitudes towards tattoos and piercings appear to be outdated. However, we found striking differences in personality traits which suggest that body-modified individuals are greater sensation seekers and follow a more unrestricted mating strategy than their non-modified contemporaries. We discuss these differences in light of a potential signalling function of tattoos and piercings in the mating context. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Effect of Victims' Social Support on Attributions of Blame in Female and Male RapeJOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 7 2005Irina Anderson The effects of perceived social support of the victim, victim gender, and participant gender on attributions of blame in rape were examined. The impact of attitudes toward gender roles was also investigated for their mediational role between participant gender and blame. Participants (N= 121) read a report of an incident of rape and evaluated the victim and the perpetrator. Two ANOVAs showed that social support and participant gender influenced blame attributed to the victim, while victim gender influenced blame attributed to the perpetrator. Socially supported victims were blamed less than were unsupported victims. Men were more blaming of rape victims than were women, but further analyses showed this was mediated by attitudes toward gender roles. Men held significantly more traditional attitudes toward gender roles than did women, and this accounted for the effect of participant gender on victim perceptions. The perpetrator of male rape was blamed less than the perpetrator of female rape. Findings are discussed in terms of the differential attributional mechanisms that may underpin men's and women's reasoning about different types of rape. [source] Who Is Going to Teach Undergraduate Clinicals?NURSING FORUM, Issue 3 2000Deolinda Mignor In 1990, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities for the Professorate, a report written by Earnest Boyer. The report questions traditional attitudes within universities related to faculty expectations in teaching, research, and service. The report states that for purposes of tenure and promotion, teaching and service are consistently underrated. It suggested that, within the university setting, furthering a discipline's scholarship does not depend solely on research, and that teaching and service can rival research in contributing to a discipline's scholarship. This article addressees this issue as it relates to nursing faculty. [source] Science, Stewardship, and Spirituality: The Human Body as a Model for Ecological RestorationRESTORATION ECOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Valentin Schaefer Abstract Ecological restoration is practiced by people of diverse backgrounds working at many different levels in a variety of settings. Portraying the human body as a metaphor of a natural ecosystem can be useful in identifying the breadth of strategies used to restore the natural environment. A technical approach, environmental stewardship, and more spiritual traditional attitudes to ecological restoration can be viewed as analogous to restoring health to the human body through an operation in a hospital, administering remedies to oneself from the medicine cabinet, and taking a broader holistic/preventative approach to cultivate the mind,body connection through, e.g., yoga. [source] | ||||||||||