Florence L Denmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 5378780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florence L Denmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florence L |
| FAMILY NAME | Denmark |
| SIGNATURE | DENMARK F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pace University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Albert Pepitone (1925–2016)
Presents an obituary for Albert Pepitone, who died on March 17, 2016, in Philadelphia at the age of 91. Pepitone was a renowned social psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise in social psychology opened up areas that significantly broadened its scope, in particular calling attention to cultural issues. wrote extensively, including many scholarly articles and contributions to published volumes. Pepitone…
Internalized homonegativity and relationship quality in same-sex romantic couples: A test of mental health mechanisms and gender as a moderator
Prior research has consistently found greater internalized homonegativity to be associated with lower relationship quality for individuals in same-sex relationships. Yet, few studies have examined different dimensions of relationship quality, what mechanisms explain the association between internalized homonegativity and relationship quality, or whether the association varies for women versus men. This study sought to build upon past research to …
Living Life to the Fullest: A Perspective on Positive Aging
Older people are living longer, particularly older women. Many lead productive and satisfying lives. This paper notes factors associated with positive aging and some of the barriers to living life to its fullest. The article includes personal reflections by each of the authors
Gloria Behar Gottsegen (1930–2015)
Presents an obituary for Gloria Behar Gottsegen, who died on April 21, 2015, in Boca Raton, Florida. Trained as a school psychologist, she was also a teacher, consultant, and author. But she is probably best known for her long and active history with the American Psychological Association (APA), during which she held dozens of positions, including the presidency of four divisions. (PsycINFO Database Record
Leonore Loeb Adler (1921–2013)
The Personal Is International: Perspectives From the United Nations on Transforming Feminist Research
The Older Woman as Sage: The Satisfaction of Mentoring
Mentoring is important to the personal and professional lives of many developing professionals, but it is also beneficial in numerous ways to the mentor. This article focuses on the benefits of mentoring from the mentor's prospective, including satisfaction in seeing protégées succeed and empowerment of both the mentor and protégée. This article showcases the importance of being a mentor, the impact mentoring has on developing psychologists, and …
Jeri Altneu Sechzer (1926–2011)
Presents an obituary for Jeri Altneu Sechzer. Jeri studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where her mentor was the renowned physiological psychologist Elliot Stellar. She received her doctorate in 1962 with a specialty in physiological psychology. That same year she was elected to Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, and received the Creative Talent Award from the American Institute of Research for her doctoral dissertation. She complet…
Georgia Babladelis (1931–2009)
Esther Halpern (1929–2008)
Estefania Aldaba-Lim (1917-2006)
Looking Ahead: Concluding Remarks
Obituary: Helmut E. Adler (1920-2001)
Obituary: Helmut E. Adler (1920-2001)
Obituary: Benjamin B. Wolman (1908-2000)
Obituary: Benjamin B. Wolman (1908-2000)
Women and psychology: An international perspective
This article examines the status of women in psychology internationally. Earlier research is reviewed and compared with recent findings, including a survey responded to by 40 individuals from countries around the world. Although improvements for women have been noted in many areas, problems of sexism and antifeminism still exist. The importance of comparative analyses across countries because of increasing worldwide interaction among psychologist…
Women and psychology: An international perspective
Bereavement and Stress of a Miscarriage: As it Affects the Couple
Perinatal death affects nearly one-third of all pregnant women (Toedter, Lasker, & Alhadeff, 1988). Of the different forms of perinatal death, this study explored the psychological impact of grief and stress in couples who experienced a miscarriage. Using the Grief Experience Inventory—Loss Version and The Impact of Event Scale, this study specifically looked at the differences between the couple in how they grieve and experience the stress of th…
Violence and the Prevention of Violence
Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. They find that it is present in practically every society, at every socioeconomic level, and in every age group. The first group of essays look at violence as a societal phenomenon—its motivational aspects as related to, for example, terrorism or machismo. The second group of essays discus…
Obituary: Harold M. Proshansky (1920-1990)
Feminist and Activist
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Engendering psychology
Engendering psychology refers to cultivating a psychology that is sensitive to issues of gender and diversity. The increase in the number of female psychologists does not guarantee that the discipline will be responsive to those issues. This article reviews the progress made in engendering psychology by examining undergraduate textbooks and classroom instruction and looking at gender bias in both research and practice. By engendering psychology, …
Engendering psychology
Sex bias in psychological research: "Progress or complacency?": Response
The relationship among sex roles, living arrangements, and the division of household responsibilities
Women, Leadership, and Empowerment
This paper is a review of leadership research, focusing primarily on women as leaders. The more recent perspective of studying leaders by examining followers is included; but research is sparse as to how leaders are perceived as empowering by their subordinates. A study in progress, conducted by Denmark, Nielson, and Scholl, indicates that stereotypes were more typically held by women against female leaders. However, a leader's ability to be empo…
Styles of Leadership
This paper will examine not leadership per se but the issue of what kinds of leaders emerge in what kinds of groups. It will focus on women—the kinds of women leaders that emerge, the styles of leadership utilized by women in contrast to those utilized by men, and the effects these kinds of leadership have on group behavior
Internalized homonegativity and relationship quality in same-sex romantic couples: A test of mental health mechanisms and gender as a moderator
Prior research has consistently found greater internalized homonegativity to be associated with lower relationship quality for individuals in same-sex relationships. Yet, few studies have examined different dimensions of relationship quality, what mechanisms explain the association between internalized homonegativity and relationship quality, or whether the association varies for women versus men. This study sought to build upon past research to …
A second look at adolescence theories
The Older Woman as Sage: The Satisfaction of Mentoring
Mentoring is important to the personal and professional lives of many developing professionals, but it is also beneficial in numerous ways to the mentor. This article focuses on the benefits of mentoring from the mentor's prospective, including satisfaction in seeing protégées succeed and empowerment of both the mentor and protégée. This article showcases the importance of being a mentor, the impact mentoring has on developing psychologists, and …
Looking Ahead: Concluding Remarks
The Psychologist as Counselor In College `High Risk' Programs
Psychiatric Labelling: Role Assignment Based On the Projective Test Performance of in-Migrants
Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Leaders' Display of Authoritarian Behavior
Recent studies of differences in attitudes of men and women suggested that women might possess the “authoritarian” trait of ethnocentricism to a greater degree than men and might therefore exhibit and find approval for more authoritarian behavior in leadership roles than men do. Analysis of men and women non-leaders' descriptions of leaders' actual and ideal behavior fails to support this hypothesis. In general, the opposite is true. Men leaders …
Internal-External Locus of Control and Verbal Fluency
84 female Ss were given the I-E Control Scale and a modified form of Thurstone's word fluency (W) test in counterbalanced order. Ss were classified as “Internals” or “Externals” by division at the median. As hypothesized, the mean fluency scores of Internals were significantly higher than those of Externals for each minute of work. Neither the order variable nor any of the interactions were significant
Locus of Control: Effects of a Serendipitous Manipulation
88 female Ss were given the I-E Control Scale. Ss in the experimental group were given highly negative feedback regarding a previously administered course examination immediately prior to the experimental testing session. The mean I-E score of the group given negative feedback was significantly higher, i.e., more “External,” than that of the control group
The Psychologist as Counselor In College `High Risk' Programs
Perceptual style, locus of control, and personality in urban white college students
The relationship between locus of control of reinforcement, perceptual style, and personality variables was investigated using a population of 133 white urban college men and women. No relationship was found between Rod-and-Frame Test scores and three different measures of internal-external locus of control. No personality variables were found common to both Rod-and-Frame Test scores and the internal-external locus of control inventories. The per…
Field Independence and Measures of Intelligence: Some Reconsiderations
A field study was conducted in a suburban elementary school to ascertain the relationship between the CEFT, a measure of field independence, and tests of verbal ability and general intelligence for lower-class black subjects. A correlational analysis revealed strong interrelationships between these tests contrary to the previous findings of Witkin and his associates. Grade level and sex interacted to produce different correlational structures for…
The Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Presentation: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues to Jessie Bernard
Styles of Leadership
This paper will examine not leadership per se but the issue of what kinds of leaders emerge in what kinds of groups. It will focus on women—the kinds of women leaders that emerge, the styles of leadership utilized by women in contrast to those utilized by men, and the effects these kinds of leadership have on group behavior
Perceptual Style, Locus of Control and Personality Variables Among East Indians and Blacks in Trinidad
25 black males, 25 East Indian males, 25 black females and 25 East Indian females from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, were given the Rod-and- frame Test (RFT), the Rotter Internal-External Control Scale (I-E Control Scale), and Edwards' Personal Preference Schedule to ascertain the relationship between these variables, as well as mean differences for males and females of two different subcultures who share the same geographical envi…
A second look at adolescence theories
Psyche: From rocking the cradle to rocking the boat
Psyche: From rocking the cradle to rocking the boat
Women, psychology, and public policy: Selected issues
Women, psychology, and public policy: Selected issues
The relationship among sex roles, living arrangements, and the division of household responsibilities
Guidelines for avoiding sexism in psychological research: A report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Nonsexist Research
This article is intended primarily for psychologists and for students of psychology who are developing skills in research design and methodology. has become clear that much research on human and animal behavior incorporates a variety of forms of sexism. Such sexism introduces unwanted bias into the research. The elimination of gender bias in psychological research is an important concern for the discipline of psychology. Researchers should attemp…
Back to the future in the education and training of psychologists
Back to the future in the education and training of psychologists
Attitudes toward Mother-in-Law and Stepmother: A Cross-Cultural Study
Attitudes toward different family members, including Mother and Grandmother who were generally perceived as loving and caring, were compared to Mother-in-Law and Stepmother, who were usually represented as nasty and cruel. The measure used was a projective spatial method, the figure-placement test. I t had long been established (Adler & Graubert, 1975) that negative attitudes resulted in greater interpersonal distances, while the reverse was obse…
Sex bias in psychological research: "Progress or complacency?": Response
Sex bias in psychological research: "Progress or complacency?": Response
Women, Leadership, and Empowerment
This paper is a review of leadership research, focusing primarily on women as leaders. The more recent perspective of studying leaders by examining followers is included; but research is sparse as to how leaders are perceived as empowering by their subordinates. A study in progress, conducted by Denmark, Nielson, and Scholl, indicates that stereotypes were more typically held by women against female leaders. However, a leader's ability to be empo…
Engendering psychology
Engendering psychology refers to cultivating a psychology that is sensitive to issues of gender and diversity. The increase in the number of female psychologists does not guarantee that the discipline will be responsive to those issues. This article reviews the progress made in engendering psychology by examining undergraduate textbooks and classroom instruction and looking at gender bias in both research and practice. By engendering psychology, …
Engendering psychology
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