Hedy White
Biographic Data
| ID | 6485300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hedy White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hedy |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Carolina University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ageism and sexism in suicide attitudes
This study was designed to measure attitudes toward suicide by sex and age. The SAVE-A scale was used to measure attitudes toward suicidal adolescents. A new inventory (the SAVE-L scale) was created to measure attitudes toward elderly suicidal people. The SAVE-L scale was found to possess good levels of internal consistency, to correlate in the expected direction with two concurrent validity measures and to break into the same three unitary facto…
Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Suicide
This study compares female and male reactions to troubled female and male target figures. The results replicate the findings of four earlier studies that showed that females are move sympathetic than males toward suicidal target figures. Unlike previous studies, however, by using a non-suicidal comparison condition, this study also shows that female sympathy ratings were not influenced by whether or not target figures were suicidal. Male ratings …
Feminist Humor
Despite popular-media claims that feminists lack a sense of humor, there has been little actual research investigating feminist humor and people's reactions to it. Three experiments investigated reactions to humorous feminist slogans that subjects classified into thematic categories. Subjects in Experiment 1 were females and males, over 30 years old, who considered themselves feminists or strongly sympathetic toward feminism. Experiment 2 used fe…
Comprehending surface and deep structure subjects
Previous research indicates young children are likely to interpret the surface-structure subject of a sentence as the deep subject regardless of syntax, e.g. John is chosen as subject of both John is easy to please and John is eager to please . However, with one-noun sentences, the task required both recognizing a difference between the sentences and inferring an implied noun. Thus an inability to make an inference might be responsible for the ch…
Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Suicide
This study compares female and male reactions to troubled female and male target figures. The results replicate the findings of four earlier studies that showed that females are move sympathetic than males toward suicidal target figures. Unlike previous studies, however, by using a non-suicidal comparison condition, this study also shows that female sympathy ratings were not influenced by whether or not target figures were suicidal. Male ratings …
Ageism and sexism in suicide attitudes
This study was designed to measure attitudes toward suicide by sex and age. The SAVE-A scale was used to measure attitudes toward suicidal adolescents. A new inventory (the SAVE-L scale) was created to measure attitudes toward elderly suicidal people. The SAVE-L scale was found to possess good levels of internal consistency, to correlate in the expected direction with two concurrent validity measures and to break into the same three unitary facto…
Feminist Humor
Despite popular-media claims that feminists lack a sense of humor, there has been little actual research investigating feminist humor and people's reactions to it. Three experiments investigated reactions to humorous feminist slogans that subjects classified into thematic categories. Subjects in Experiment 1 were females and males, over 30 years old, who considered themselves feminists or strongly sympathetic toward feminism. Experiment 2 used fe…
Comprehending surface and deep structure subjects
Previous research indicates young children are likely to interpret the surface-structure subject of a sentence as the deep subject regardless of syntax, e.g. John is chosen as subject of both John is easy to please and John is eager to please . However, with one-noun sentences, the task required both recognizing a difference between the sentences and inferring an implied noun. Thus an inability to make an inference might be responsible for the ch…
Feminist Humor
Despite popular-media claims that feminists lack a sense of humor, there has been little actual research investigating feminist humor and people's reactions to it. Three experiments investigated reactions to humorous feminist slogans that subjects classified into thematic categories. Subjects in Experiment 1 were females and males, over 30 years old, who considered themselves feminists or strongly sympathetic toward feminism. Experiment 2 used fe…
Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Suicide
This study compares female and male reactions to troubled female and male target figures. The results replicate the findings of four earlier studies that showed that females are move sympathetic than males toward suicidal target figures. Unlike previous studies, however, by using a non-suicidal comparison condition, this study also shows that female sympathy ratings were not influenced by whether or not target figures were suicidal. Male ratings …
Ageism and sexism in suicide attitudes
This study was designed to measure attitudes toward suicide by sex and age. The SAVE-A scale was used to measure attitudes toward suicidal adolescents. A new inventory (the SAVE-L scale) was created to measure attitudes toward elderly suicidal people. The SAVE-L scale was found to possess good levels of internal consistency, to correlate in the expected direction with two concurrent validity measures and to break into the same three unitary facto…
Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sympathy (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Medical emergency (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Poison control (2 works)