Mary B Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 199378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary B Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary B |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8172-3416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Correlates and Characteristics of Boredom Proneness and Boredom 1
This study investigated the relationships between boredom proneness, mood monitoring, mood labeling, and tendency to experience flow; and explored some qualitative, phenomenological aspects of boredom. College students ( N = 170) responded to an anonymous questionnaire containing the Boredom Proneness Scale (Farmer & Sundberg, 1986), the Mood Awareness Scale (Swinkels & Giuliano, 1995), a measure of flow proneness, and questions about the experie…
Gender and Perceptions of Danger
Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Parents with Coming Out in a School Setting
The present study was conducted to learn more about the experiences of gay and lesbian parents and teachers, particularly about experiences relevant to disclosure of their homosexuality at school. Thirty-four teachers and nineteen parents responded to an anonymous questionnaire. Teachers were more likely to disclose their sexual orientation to fellow teachers than to principals, and to women than to men. Responses to disclosure were generally but…
Coming Out in a School Setting: Former Students' Experiences and Opinions About Disclosure
The present study was conducted to learn more about the experiences of gay men and lesbians in educational settings, particularly about experiences relevant to disclosure of their sexual orientation. One hundred six gay men and 156 lesbian women responded to an anonymous questionnaire dealing with how their sexual orientation had affected their experiences in school. As students, very few respondents had chosen to disclose their sexual orientatio…
Most Admired Women and Men: Gallup, Good Housekeeping, and gender
Gender and aggression II: Personal aggressiveness
Gender and aggression I: Perceptions of aggression
Maintenance of Weight Loss after a Very-Low-Calorie Diet Involving Behavioral Treatment
The long-term effects of a very-low-calorie diet coupled with behavioral therapy were studied for 209 subjects. Although a low goal weight, frequent calorie counting and exercise, and a later age of onset of obesity predicted a low relative weight, most respondents had regained most of the weight they had lost
Health Care Professionals' Experience, Knowledge, and Attitudes Concerning Homosexuality
The purpose of this study was to examine the experience with attitudes towards, and knowledge about homosexuality of three groups of health care professionals. Subjects were 97 registeres nurses, social workers, and psychologists who responded to a six-page mailed questionnaire. Professional discipline of the subject, gender of the client, and gender of the client's lover in a fictitious scenario did not significantly affect ratings or suggested …
Attitudes Towards Gays and Lesbians Serving in the Military
The purpose of the resent study was to identify correlates of attitudes towards permitting gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Two studies were conducted, one with 210 adults enrolled in classes at a university and one with 31 high school students, most of whom were enrolled in ROTC classes. Although the high school students were more conservative, both samples revealed the high school students were more conservative, both samples reveale…
Ethnicity, gender, and evaluations of aggression
In order to investigate some of the ways in which ethnicity and gender influence interpretations of aggression, 363 Anglo and Hispanic university students responded to a questionnaire soliciting their evaluations of aggression in three situations. Consistent with previous research and with the stereotype of machismo, Hispanics, particularly Hispanic males, were more likely to endorse some aggressive behaviors than Anglos. However, the same patter…
How provoking! what makes men and women angry
This study looked at differences in anger-provoking behaviors and in verbal insults as a function of the gender of the aggressor and the target of the provocation. Responses of 416 college students revealed that males were more likely to consider a female exhibiting physical aggression or a male hurting another person as anger-provoking, whereas females were more likely to mention condescending or insensitive behaviors from either sex, verbal agg…
Beliefs about How to Reduce Anger
To learn more about people's beliefs about how to reduce anger, 416 college students were asked what they thought would be the effects of various responses to feeling angry. In general, they thought that behaving aggressively would make them feel worse and that distracting themselves and doing something nice for another would make them feel better. However, males, younger subjects, and those who had behaved more aggressively in the past were more…
Television Viewing, Aggression, and Ethnicity
For 416 college students, questioned about their experiences with aggression and television viewing, only very weak correlations between preference for violent shows and aggression were observed. Black males watched significantly more television than other respondents. These findings suggest that the frequently reported correlation between viewing televised violence and aggression may not appear when sex, ethnicity, and education are controlled i…
Sex and ethnic differences in past aggressive behaviors
Sex, race, and experiences of aggression
Most previous research on sex differences in experienced aggression has confounded the sex of the aggressor and of the target by considering married or dating couples. In the present study, black and white male and female college students were asked about specific acts of aggression which they had received from or directed toward a male or female. As predicted, males were likely to have both received and exhibited more forms of aggressive behavio…
Parenting in gay and lesbian families
Feeling Fat: Motivations, Knowledge, and Attitudes of Overweight Women and Men
Feeling Fat: Motivations, Knowledge, and Attitudes of Overweight Women and Men
Food intake in a multicultural southwestern population I. General patterns
In order to obtain information about food intake and liking in a Southwestern population, a questionnaire was administered to 176 Anglo, Hispanic, Navajo and Jemez Indian elementary school children. Frequencies of intake of certain foods, particularly foods indigenous to the Southwest, were different from those of the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey, implying that all Americans do not eat from a “common table.” The results suggest that regiona…
Food intake in a multicultural southwestern population II. Ethnic, gender and age differences
The purpose of this paper was to assess ethnic, gender and age differences in food consumption and liking in a Southwestern population. Subjects were 176 Anglo, Hispanic, Navajo and Jemez Indian elementary school children. Numerous ethnic differences in food intake and liking were identified, and a smaller number of gender and age differences were also significant. These results suggest that nutrition programs and curriculum development should be…
Attitudes toward Aging in a Southwestern Sample: Effects of Ethnicity, Age, and Sex
The present study, conducted in a Southwestern community, surveyed 257 adults varying in ethnicity, age, and sex on several measures of attitudes toward aging. Contrary to most previous research, the attitudes were positive in all groups, with persons aged sixty years or older giving the most positive responses on a number of items. American Indians and Hispanics were more likely to enjoy spending time with old people than Anglo-Americans, who, i…
Tobacco Use in a Fifth-Grade Southwestern Sample
As a preliminary step to designing a health education curriculum for Anglo-American, Hispanic, and Native American children from rural areas of New Mexico, a self-report questionnaire designed to measure tobacco use, exposure and attitudes was administered to 204 boys and girls in fifth-grade classes in six schools. Substantial differences in smoking and smokeless tobacco use were found for children who differed in age, ethnicity, and gender. Thi…
Gay and Lesbian Parents
An anonymous survey of 23 gay and lesbian parents and 16 heterosexual single parents was conducted in order to see whether the parents' homosexuality created special problems or benefits or both, for their children. Both sets of parents reported relatively few serious problems and generally positive relationships with their children, with only a minority encouraging sex-typed toys, activities, and playmates. Heterosexual parents made a greater ef…
Some Factors Influencing Selection and Naming of Pets
Three studies were conducted of factors influencing the selection and naming of pets: a questionnaire survey of pet owners, an experimental study manipulating characteristics of a stimulus person and asking for recommendations for a pet and its name, and an archival study of a veterinarian's records. The subjects owned a variety of pets chosen for a number of reasons, especially love and companionship. Two classification systems did not show a re…
Gay and Lesbian Parents
An anonymous survey of 23 gay and lesbian parents and 16 heterosexual single parents was conducted in order to see whether the parents' homosexuality created special problems or benefits or both, for their children. Both sets of parents reported relatively few serious problems and generally positive relationships with their children, with only a minority encouraging sex-typed toys, activities, and playmates. Heterosexual parents made a greater ef…
Gender and Perceptions of Danger
Gender and aggression I: Perceptions of aggression
Gender and aggression II: Personal aggressiveness
Affect, aggression, and altruism
Mediators between frustration and aggression in a field experiment
Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Parents with Coming Out in a School Setting
The present study was conducted to learn more about the experiences of gay and lesbian parents and teachers, particularly about experiences relevant to disclosure of their homosexuality at school. Thirty-four teachers and nineteen parents responded to an anonymous questionnaire. Teachers were more likely to disclose their sexual orientation to fellow teachers than to principals, and to women than to men. Responses to disclosure were generally but…
Coming Out in a School Setting: Former Students' Experiences and Opinions About Disclosure
The present study was conducted to learn more about the experiences of gay men and lesbians in educational settings, particularly about experiences relevant to disclosure of their sexual orientation. One hundred six gay men and 156 lesbian women responded to an anonymous questionnaire dealing with how their sexual orientation had affected their experiences in school. As students, very few respondents had chosen to disclose their sexual orientatio…
Sex and ethnic differences in past aggressive behaviors
Health Care Professionals' Experience, Knowledge, and Attitudes Concerning Homosexuality
The purpose of this study was to examine the experience with attitudes towards, and knowledge about homosexuality of three groups of health care professionals. Subjects were 97 registeres nurses, social workers, and psychologists who responded to a six-page mailed questionnaire. Professional discipline of the subject, gender of the client, and gender of the client's lover in a fictitious scenario did not significantly affect ratings or suggested …
The effects of sex, sex-stereotyped descriptions, and institution on evaluations of teachers
Attitudes Towards Gays and Lesbians Serving in the Military
The purpose of the resent study was to identify correlates of attitudes towards permitting gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Two studies were conducted, one with 210 adults enrolled in classes at a university and one with 31 high school students, most of whom were enrolled in ROTC classes. Although the high school students were more conservative, both samples revealed the high school students were more conservative, both samples reveale…
Conformity in Chinese and Americans: A Field Experiment
A cross-cultural field experiment to determine the effects of a model's social status and specific task competence on imitation or conformity was conducted in Taiwan, Republic of China, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The results indicated that Chinese were more conforming than Americans and that, in both countries, the model's status had a significant effect and competence a negligible effect on conformity. A status-by-competence int…
Most Admired Women and Men: Gallup, Good Housekeeping, and gender
Effects of sex, occupation, and confidence of model and sex and grade of subject on imitation of language behaviors
The Prison and the Prisoner
I Knew Them in Prison
Models, Norms and Sharing
Third and fifth grade children were exposed to a model who either shared with them, gave to a mental health charity or refused to share. Their subsequent sharing with the model, mental health, or a Toys for Tots charity or their refusal to share was observed, along with their answers to a questionnaire designed to assess the salience of a norm of altruism for them. Both specific and generalized imitation of altruism was found, and salience of sha…
The Portly Psychologist, or, on the Perils of Using a Control Group
A questionnaire was sent to people who had requested reprints of an article on weight control as well as to a control group of people who requested reprints of articles on other topics. Although a majority of people who requested the weight-control paper reported that they had a weight problem, were overweight, had an overweight friend or relative, etc., the control group reported an equal preoccupation with obesity; in fact, the two groups did n…
A Self-Control Approach to Reducing Smoking
A self-control program for reducing smoking which emphasized the use of record-keeping, positive reinforcement, punishment, stimulus control, breaking up the chain of behaviors, and other behavior modification techniques was developed and tried out with 5 Ss. The flexibility and economy of such a program suggest that more widespread tests of its effectiveness would be worthwhile
Models and Vegetable Eating: The Power of Popeye
Modeling and Flexibility in Problem-Solving
To study the effect of modeling on flexibility in problem solving, 67 male and 74 female college students were randomly assigned to 5 treatment groups: 3 modeling groups, which observed a model solving anagrams in a flexible or rigid manner, and 2 control groups. The results showed that Ss who observed a model solving anagrams in a variety of ways solved anagrams in a more varied manner than Ss in the other conditions. Further, all the modeling g…
Altruism and Sex Roles
Models and Creativity
In order to determine whether exposure to a symbolic model could affect creative behavior, 130 male and female college students were randomly exposed to a prolific divergent thinking model, a prolific convergent thinking model, an inadequate convergent thinking model or no model on an unusual uses task. On identical, similar, and generalization tasks, Ss exposed to either convergent model tended to show more convergent responses and fewer diverge…
Conformity in Chinese and Americans: A Field Experiment
A cross-cultural field experiment to determine the effects of a model's social status and specific task competence on imitation or conformity was conducted in Taiwan, Republic of China, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The results indicated that Chinese were more conforming than Americans and that, in both countries, the model's status had a significant effect and competence a negligible effect on conformity. A status-by-competence int…
Effect of Note-Taking Preference and Type of Notes Taken on Memory
To study the effect of note taking, type of notes taken, and review on recall, 112 male and female college students were randomly assigned to four treatment groups using different combinations of note taking and review. No treatment effects were found, but preference for detailed notes was significantly positively correlated with recall for those assigned to take detailed notes, more weakly correlated with recall for those assigned to take no not…
Effects of a Symbolic Model's Originality, Sex and Doodles on Original Responses
In order to assess the effects of a written model upon the originality of responses to three tasks, 90 male and 107 female college students were randomly assigned to see responses of an original or unoriginal male or female model with or without accompanying doodles. Those seeing an original model gave more original responses and those seeing an unoriginal model gave more common responses, but there were no sex effects or interactions and only sl…
Arousal and Attribution
To study the effects of one's cognitive attribution of his emotional state on his experienced arousal, Ss were exposed to an unpleasant noise and told either that it might lead to physiological arousal symptoms or that it might cause non-arousal symptoms. While listening to the noise they rated the attractiveness of slides of either semi-nude females or landscapes, along with the unpleasantness of the noise, their belief about common effects of n…
Accelerating Dissertation Writing: Case Study
In an application of Zimmerman's productive avoidance technique, to accelerate dissertation writing, an S who had postponed writing her dissertation for 2 yr. deposited $50 in cash with E. Five dollars was returned each week to S contingent on 5 pages of writing being submitted; otherwise the money was mailed to a church organization S intensely disliked. After the eighth week a draft was complete, and S's committee requested only minor revisions…
Mediators between frustration and aggression in a field experiment
Affect, aggression, and altruism
The effects of sex, sex-stereotyped descriptions, and institution on evaluations of teachers
Effects of sex, occupation, and confidence of model and sex and grade of subject on imitation of language behaviors
Sex-Role Stereotypes, Models' Race, and Imitation
To determine how sex-role stereotypes mediate the influence of a model, 136 male and female shoppers heard a male or female, black or white model, who was identified as a nurse or television repairman, make unrealistically high estimates of the prices of objects, supposedly for a consumer survey. The objects, some of which were sex-stereotyped, were a bottle opener, pliers, thermometer, football magazine, and recipe holder. When subjects were ask…
Sex-Role Stereotypes and Televised Models of Emotion
Beliefs about Obesity: Effects of Age, Ethnicity, Sex and Weight
To find out if subjects' knowledge of the complex nature of obesity increases with age, 447 nursery school, first grade, fifth grade, and adult subjects were asked if they knew anyone fat and, if so, who; what the causes of obesity are; and whose fault it is if someone is fat. Older subjects were increasingly likely to know people who were fat and to give complex causal explanations for obesity; moreover, adults were less likely than children to …
Some Factors Influencing Selection and Naming of Pets
Three studies were conducted of factors influencing the selection and naming of pets: a questionnaire survey of pet owners, an experimental study manipulating characteristics of a stimulus person and asking for recommendations for a pet and its name, and an archival study of a veterinarian's records. The subjects owned a variety of pets chosen for a number of reasons, especially love and companionship. Two classification systems did not show a re…
Gay and Lesbian Parents
An anonymous survey of 23 gay and lesbian parents and 16 heterosexual single parents was conducted in order to see whether the parents' homosexuality created special problems or benefits or both, for their children. Both sets of parents reported relatively few serious problems and generally positive relationships with their children, with only a minority encouraging sex-typed toys, activities, and playmates. Heterosexual parents made a greater ef…
Food intake in a multicultural southwestern population I. General patterns
In order to obtain information about food intake and liking in a Southwestern population, a questionnaire was administered to 176 Anglo, Hispanic, Navajo and Jemez Indian elementary school children. Frequencies of intake of certain foods, particularly foods indigenous to the Southwest, were different from those of the Nationwide Food Consumption Survey, implying that all Americans do not eat from a “common table.” The results suggest that regiona…
Food intake in a multicultural southwestern population II. Ethnic, gender and age differences
The purpose of this paper was to assess ethnic, gender and age differences in food consumption and liking in a Southwestern population. Subjects were 176 Anglo, Hispanic, Navajo and Jemez Indian elementary school children. Numerous ethnic differences in food intake and liking were identified, and a smaller number of gender and age differences were also significant. These results suggest that nutrition programs and curriculum development should be…
Psychology (46 works) · Social Psychology (31 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Developmental psychology (27 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Aggression (10 works) · Ethnic group (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works)