The Hours: Between Safety and Servitude

This paper explores the issue of how character is created and re-created in the context of relationships. This theme, salient in the recent film The Hours, has been particularly problematic for creative women, who are often caught in tensions between self-development and relationship. Two case examples are given, in counterpoint to the film and to illustrations from Woolf's life and work. Through these various lenses, we can consider the complex interplays between our conjectures as to the expected price of relationship, and the actual price exacted as our various dramas unfold.     

The plural self

In a sample of 61 psychology students, unity in the subjective structure of the self was associated with having a Taoist orientation.     

A factor analysis of Furnham's Money Attitude Scale: a response to Furnham

Two empirically-derived scales from Furnham's Money Attitude Scale are presented. They measure money as a source of status and power and having a strong desire for money.     

Cancer and suicide

Mortality rates from suicide and cancer in 1990 in 37 European nations were positively associated.     

Predicting the rate with which police officers are assaulted, injured, and killed

From 1964-1990, the rates with which police officers were assaulted, injured, and killed were predicted by social indicators of violence and social disintegration.     

Does the Type of Cheating Influence Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Cheating?

There has been a plethora of studies outlying the various factors which may affect undergraduate student cheating, generally focusing on individual, situational and deterrent factors. But beyond these factors, does the type of cheating affect students’ perceptions of cheating? We found that there were differences in regards to gradable cheating such as cheating on homework, tests and papers versus non-gradable cheating such as illegally downloading software/music from the Internet or photocopying materials which violate the university’s academic integrity policy. Gender, discussion of ethical issues in class and enforcement of cheating reduces the acceptance of cheating across types of cheating. Less time spent on the Internet reduces the acceptance of only non-gradable cheating and the type of institution and knowing the consequences of cheating reduces the acceptance of only gradable cheating.     

Spirituality and religiosity as predictors of depression and suicidal ideation: an exploratory study

In a sample of 149 undergraduate students, measures of religiosity and spirituality were positively associated with measures of depression, mania, and past suicidal ideation.