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Häftad, Engelska, 2015
455 kr
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Left-handedness has been connected to many different conditions, traits, and abilities. This is especially true for pathological syndromes, such as schizophrenia, along with learning disabilities and autism. The published research on handedness is vast and frequently contradictory, often raising more questions than providing answers. Questions such as:
Is handedness genetic? Can handedness be changed? Are there consequences to training someone to switch handedness? Are there positive traits associated with left-handedness like creativity? Are there negative traits associated with left-handedness like trouble reading maps? Is it abnormal to do some things right-handed and other things left-handed? Are the brains of left-handers different from the brains of right-handers?Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness examines the research conducted over the past 50 years with special emphasis on twenty-first century research on handedness and translates this literature into an accessible and readable form. Each chapter is based on a question or questions covering diverse topics such as genetic and biological origins of handedness, familial and hormonal influences on handedness, and the effects of a majority right-handed world on the behaviors of left-handers.
Summarizes scientific research on laterality Separates fact from fiction in common beliefs about laterality Includes illustrative interviews with left-handers
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Engelska, 2015537 kr
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Left-handedness has been connected to many different conditions, traits, and abilities. This is especially true for pathological syndromes, such as schizophrenia, along with learning disabilities and autism. The published research on handedness is vast and frequently contradictory, often raising more questions than providing answers. Questions such as:- Is handedness genetic?- Can handedness be changed?- Are there consequences to training someone to switch handedness?- Are there positive traits associated with left-handedness like creativity?- Are there negative traits associated with left-handedness like trouble reading maps?- Is it abnormal to do some things right-handed and other things left-handed?- Are the brains of left-handers different from the brains of right-handers?Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left-Handedness examines the research conducted over the past 50 years with special emphasis on twenty-first century research on handedness and translates this literature into an accessible and readable form. Each chapter is based on a question or questions covering diverse topics such as genetic and biological origins of handedness, familial and hormonal influences on handedness, and the effects of a majority right-handed world on the behaviors of left-handers.- Summarizes scientific research on laterality- Separates fact from fiction in common beliefs about laterality- Includes illustrative interviews with left-handers
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Engelska, 2021136 kr
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The year is 1974 and Susan Barron has finished her PhD in psychology. She looks forward to moving from graduate student to assistant professor. After months of an unsuccessful job search, she faces another unexpected transition---a move from New York City to another country. Her dissertation advisor, Dan Kavline, accepts a senior faculty position at a university in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He recommends Susan apply for an opening in a nearby institution in Victoria. He offers her a co-authorship on a textbook as an incentive to make the move. Faced with financial hardships but determined to start her academic career, Susan opts to accept the only faculty position offered.Susan arrives in British Columbia and encounters a series of shocking surprises about Dan, his marriage, and his influence in obtaining her academic position. She feels isolated from her asocial department colleagues, and the embittered department chairman is hostile toward new faculty. Some see her as an interloper from the States taking a job away from a qualified Canadian. Her research and writing are stalled by the overwhelming burden of her teaching responsibilities.Her first year as an assistant professor finds Susan caught between a budding friendship with a first-year faculty colleague, Lucas Selkirk, and an unwanted personal relationship with Dan Kavline. Susan eventually achieves her goals and receives praise from the department but her rocky transition from graduate student to assistant professor causes Susan to question the cost she paid to pursue her chosen career path.The novel explores the conflicts faced by women entering the professoriate in the 1970''s and 1980''s. Sexual harassment policies were non-existent and female mentors were scarce. Personal needs often clashed with career ambitions as women struggled to establish themselves as scholars and academics.
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PDF, Engelska, 2012712 kr
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Lateral preferences are strange, puzzling, and on the surface, not particularly adaptive aspects of behavior. Why one chooses habitually to write or to brush the teeth with the right hand, while a friend or family member habitually uses the left hand, might be interesting enough to elicit some conversation over dinner or a drink, but certainly does not seem to warrant serious scientific study. Yet when one looks at human behaviors more carefully, one becomes aware that asymmet rical behaviors favoring one side or the other are actually a fairly universal characteristic of human beings. In the same way that we are right or left handed, we are also right or left footed, eyed, and eared. As a species, we are quite lopsided in our behavioral coordinations; furthermore, the vast majority of us are right sided. Considering that we are looking at a sizable number of behaviors, and at a set of biases that seem to be systematic and show a predictable skew in the popUlation, the problem takes on greater significance. The most obvious form of lateral preference is, of course, handedness. When studying behavioral asymmetries, this is the issue with which most investigators start. Actually, we entered this research area through a much different route. Around 1971 we became interested in the problem of eye dominance or eye preference. This is a behavior where the input to one eye seems to be preferred over that to the other in certain binocular viewing situations.
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
543 kr
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Lateral preferences are strange, puzzling, and on the surface, not particularly adaptive aspects of behavior. Why one chooses habitually to write or to brush the teeth with the right hand, while a friend or family member habitually uses the left hand, might be interesting enough to elicit some conversation over dinner or a drink, but certainly does not seem to warrant serious scientific study. Yet when one looks at human behaviors more carefully, one becomes aware that asymmet rical behaviors favoring one side or the other are actually a fairly universal characteristic of human beings. In the same way that we are right or left handed, we are also right or left footed, eyed, and eared. As a species, we are quite lopsided in our behavioral coordinations; furthermore, the vast majority of us are right sided. Considering that we are looking at a sizable number of behaviors, and at a set of biases that seem to be systematic and show a predictable skew in the popUlation, the problem takes on greater significance. The most obvious form of lateral preference is, of course, handedness. When studying behavioral asymmetries, this is the issue with which most investigators start. Actually, we entered this research area through a much different route. Around 1971 we became interested in the problem of eye dominance or eye preference. This is a behavior where the input to one eye seems to be preferred over that to the other in certain binocular viewing situations.
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Engelska, 202497 kr
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Is This My Place, the sequel to In Strange Places, continues the story of Susan Barron, a young academic psychologist. In 1974 she transitioned from doctoral studies in New York City to a first-year assistant professor position at James Douglas University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is now 1978 as Susan begins her fifth year as a faculty member in the JDU psychology department. Based on her academic performance, her department encourages her to seek tenure a year earlier than usual for most junior faculty. Despite her misgivings about staying at JDU, Susan agrees to apply for tenure. Tenure brings career advantages, but Susan knows it will not change the barren intellectual landscape of her department nor will it alter her status as a department misfit. Susan quickly realizes her tenure year will be fraught with anxiety. A conversation with a disgruntled colleague leads her to distrust the department''s motives for offering early tenure. The presence of a new department chairman introduces an unknown factor into the tenure-granting process. A department emergency causes a shift in teaching assignment and an increased workload. A chance encounter with a former colleague revives memories of the emotional turmoil of her early days at JDU. Feeling overwhelmed, Susan seeks relief by secretly applying for a position in her dream department at another university. Susan becomes increasingly apprehensive as the protracted and secretive tenure application process drags on. She is distraught to discover the evaluation committee questions her contribution to the work published with a long-time research collaborator. Angry over yet another slight from her academic colleagues, she accepts an invitation to interview for the position in her dream department. Spring arrives signaling the end of the academic year. Her dream department, with its reputation for research excellence and its distinguished faculty, beckons her to join. Conflicted, Susan also sees the advantages of remaining in Victoria---a relationship with a desirable man, the job security of tenure, and the possibility of future academic advancement. As Susan struggles with the dilemma of her situation, she asks herself about Victoria and JDU, Is This My Place?