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Title: The influence of benthic macrophytes on the foraging behavior of pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus).
Creator: Stoner, Allan W., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3331830
Subject Headings: Lagodon rhomboides, Pinfish, Foraging behavior in animals
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Title: Chemical composition, metabolic rates and feeding behavior of the midwater ctenophore Bathocyroe fosteri.
Creator: Youngbluth, Marsh J., Kremer, P., Bailey, T. G., Jacoby, C. A.
Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333092
Subject Headings: Ctenophora, Feeding Behavior, Biochemistry, Metabolism--Measurement
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Title: The adaptive value of larval behavior of a colonial ascidian.
Creator: Hurlbut, C. J., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333206
Subject Headings: Larvae--Behavior, Ascidians, Didemnum, Diplosoma
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Title: Induction of evisceration in the holothurianEupentacta Quinquesemita and evidence for the existence of an endogenous evisceration factor.
Creator: Byrne, M., Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Date Issued: 1986
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007172
Subject Headings: Holothurians, Sea cucumbers--Behavior, Autotomy
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Title: Effects of chronic amphetamine on the appetitive and consummatory phases of feeding.
Creator: Wolgin, David L.
Date Issued: 2002-06
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/228706
Subject Headings: Behavior-drug effects., Neuropharmacology--Research.
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Title: Intraspecific aggression in the brown rover ant, Brachymyrmex obscurior.
Creator: Ruddock, Whitney A., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Invasive ant species often show unicoloniality, forming networks of connected colonies (i.e. supercolonies), which may extend hundreds or even thousands of kilometers. These "supercolonies" lack intraspecific aggression, thus fighting between colonies is absent. Unicoloniality may be an adaptive mechanism that allows for invasive ant species to reach higher population density and achieve ecological dominance. We used aggression assays to study unicoloniality within and between colonies of the...
Show moreInvasive ant species often show unicoloniality, forming networks of connected colonies (i.e. supercolonies), which may extend hundreds or even thousands of kilometers. These "supercolonies" lack intraspecific aggression, thus fighting between colonies is absent. Unicoloniality may be an adaptive mechanism that allows for invasive ant species to reach higher population density and achieve ecological dominance. We used aggression assays to study unicoloniality within and between colonies of the invasive brown rover ant, Brachymyrmex obscurior on the Florida Atlantic University campus in Jupiter, FL. We found that the four B. obscurior colonies could be behaviorally divided into two areas: workers from both colonies in either region never showed intraspecific aggression while workers from colonies in opposing areas always showed intraspecific aggression, often fighting to the death. Thus, B. obscurior appears to show very localized unicoloniality, with neighboring colonies forming small supercolonies.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77685
Subject Headings: Ants, Behavior, Insect societies, Predation (Biology)
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Title: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF THE BACHMAN’S SPARROW (PEUCAEA AESTIVALIS).
Creator: Niederhauser, Joseph M., Anderson, Rindy, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Biological Sciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Abstract/Description: Behavioral ecology is an integrative field that span many different topics from genes and physiology to ecology and evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, I studied territoriality, behavioral plasticity and syndromes, song learning, and natal dispersal in the Bachman’s sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis), an imperiled songbird that is understudied in many aspects of its behavior. In chapter one, I provide a background of behavioral ecology, the topics covered in this dissertation, and the...
Show moreBehavioral ecology is an integrative field that span many different topics from genes and physiology to ecology and evolutionary biology. In this dissertation, I studied territoriality, behavioral plasticity and syndromes, song learning, and natal dispersal in the Bachman’s sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis), an imperiled songbird that is understudied in many aspects of its behavior. In chapter one, I provide a background of behavioral ecology, the topics covered in this dissertation, and the Bachman’s sparrow. In chapter two, I determine if the ideal despotic distribution applies to Bachman’s sparrows. In chapter three, I examine whether two common personality traits, aggressiveness and boldness, are consistent over time and form a behavioral syndrome, or if they change in relation to environmental variables. My last chapter infers song learning and natal dispersal strategies in Bachman’s sparrows from examining patterns song-type sharing over geographic distance.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013528
Subject Headings: Bachman's sparrow, Peucaea aestivalis, Behavioral ecology
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Title: Does size really matter: how synchrony and size affect the dynamic of aggression between two sympatric species of dolphin in the Bahamas.
Creator: Cuksick, Jessica A., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract/Description: Bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and spotted (Stenella frontalis) dolphins are sympatric species, resident to Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. A unique, dynamic methodology quantified how interspecific aggression changed over time in terms of the individuals participating, context, and behaviors used. The timing of human observation relative to the onset of aggression did not result in differences in the proportion of behaviors observed. Highly intense behaviors were used most often. The...
Show moreBottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and spotted (Stenella frontalis) dolphins are sympatric species, resident to Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. A unique, dynamic methodology quantified how interspecific aggression changed over time in terms of the individuals participating, context, and behaviors used. The timing of human observation relative to the onset of aggression did not result in differences in the proportion of behaviors observed. Highly intense behaviors were used most often. The synchronous state of spotted dolphin groups, not the presence alone, was a crucial factor in determining the onset and progression of aggression. When synchronous, spotted dolphins successfully dominated the larger bottlenose dolphins. Two levels of dominance were observed. Within a single encounter ("encounter level"), one species did dominate the other. When all aggressive encounters were considered collectively over the long term ("gross level"), one species did not dominate the other. The combination of contextual factors best determined the dynamic of interspecific aggression.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3342044
Subject Headings: Bottlenose dolphin, Behavior, Research, Atlantic spotted dolphin, Behavior, Research, Mammals, Behavior, Aggressive behavior in animals
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Title: Narcissism Admiration and Rivalry Using Situation Research.
Creator: Ramos, Jamie Zahava, Sherman, Ryne A., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Narcissism is a multidimensional construct consisting of many components and a variety of conceptualizations. One such example is the NARC conceptualization of grandiose narcissism and its two subcomponents admiration and rivalry. This research aims to answer three questions about the NARC conceptualization: (1) what is the relationship between narcissism and Big Six Personality dimensions?; (2) what is the relationship between narcissism and observable behavior?; and (3) how does narcissism...
Show moreNarcissism is a multidimensional construct consisting of many components and a variety of conceptualizations. One such example is the NARC conceptualization of grandiose narcissism and its two subcomponents admiration and rivalry. This research aims to answer three questions about the NARC conceptualization: (1) what is the relationship between narcissism and Big Six Personality dimensions?; (2) what is the relationship between narcissism and observable behavior?; and (3) how does narcissism relate to situational experiences in daily life? Results showed that, consistent with previous research, narcissism was related to Big Six personality. Additionally, narcissism was related to observable behavior. Finally, the results also showed a relationship between narcissism and every day experience (i.e., situation experiences and state expressions of personality). Most critically, the pattern of results suggests that although admiration and rivalry are related subcomponents of narcissism, they are quite distinct in terms of their personality and behavioral correlates.
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Date Issued: 2017
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004855
Subject Headings: Narcissism--Psychology., Human behavior., Typology (Psychology)
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Title: Maternal and alloparental discipline in Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) in the Bahamas.
Creator: Weinpress, Meghan., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Abstract/Description: Discipline was implemented by mothers and alloparent spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) mothers and alloparents on Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. Disciplinarians were significantly more likely to be adults than juveniles. Although most disciplinarians were female, males were also observed to perform discipline. The recipients of discipline were male and female, and significantly more likely to be calves than juveniles. Pursuit, contact, and display behaviors were used in discipline, however...
Show moreDiscipline was implemented by mothers and alloparent spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) mothers and alloparents on Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas. Disciplinarians were significantly more likely to be adults than juveniles. Although most disciplinarians were female, males were also observed to perform discipline. The recipients of discipline were male and female, and significantly more likely to be calves than juveniles. Pursuit, contact, and display behaviors were used in discipline, however pursuit behaviors were most often observed. Variables such as age class, sex, and parity were not found to influence how discipline was implemented. The durations of all disciplinary pursuits were under thirty seconds, and successful pursuits had slightly shorter duration than unsuccessful pursuits. Disciplinarian success was not significantly influenced by age class, sex, parity, or behavior used.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361254
Subject Headings: Animal behavior, Behavior evolution, Atlantic mammals, Behavior, Parent-child relationships, Social behavior in animals, Discipline of children, Atlantic spotted dolphin
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Title: THE EFFECTS OF PROGESTERONE, TESTOSTERONE, AND DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE ON THE MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF THE FEMALE RAT.
Creator: KAPLAN, PETER L., Florida Atlantic University, Singer, Jay J., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Twenty-six 75-day-old, ovariectomized Long-Evans female rats were randomly divided into two groups of ten and one group of six animals. The ten Group I Ss received, in consecutive treatment periods, 2 mg progesterone (P-2) daily, 2 mg testosterone propiorate (TP-2) daily, TP-2 daily plus P-2 every fourth day, and P-2 every fourth day. The ten Group II Ss received, in consecutive treatment periods, P-2 every fourth day, and 4 mg dihydrotestosterone (DHT-4) daily plus P-2 every fourth day. Both...
Show moreTwenty-six 75-day-old, ovariectomized Long-Evans female rats were randomly divided into two groups of ten and one group of six animals. The ten Group I Ss received, in consecutive treatment periods, 2 mg progesterone (P-2) daily, 2 mg testosterone propiorate (TP-2) daily, TP-2 daily plus P-2 every fourth day, and P-2 every fourth day. The ten Group II Ss received, in consecutive treatment periods, P-2 every fourth day, and 4 mg dihydrotestosterone (DHT-4) daily plus P-2 every fourth day. Both Groups I and II were tested for female sexual behavior. A significant increase in the lordosis response was observed only in Group I Ss after receiving TP-2 plus P-2 every fourth day. Group III Ss were tested for male sexual behavior after receiving DHT-4 daily. Male sexual behavior increased significantly after DHT-4 treatments. It was concluded that progesterone exerts a facilitatory effect on female sexual behavior only when the Ss have been previously primed with an aromatizable androgen and that dihydrotestosterone is capable of inducing male sexual behavior in female rats.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13576
Subject Headings: Sexual behavior in animals, Hormones, Sex
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Title: THE EFFECTS OF TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE ON THE MALE AND FEMALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF THE FEMALE RAT.
Creator: BRADSHAW, WILSON G., Florida Atlantic University, Singer, Jay J.
Abstract/Description: Fourteen 75-day-old female rats of the Long-Evans strain were ovariectomized and divided into two groups of seven. Group I received daily injections of 2mg testosterone propionate (TP) and was tested for male sexual behavior. Group II, in addition to daily injections of TP, also received injections of 1mg progesterone on five of the ten test days. This group was tested for female sexual behavior. TP was found to exert a facilitory effect on both male and female sexual behavior. Female sexual...
Show moreFourteen 75-day-old female rats of the Long-Evans strain were ovariectomized and divided into two groups of seven. Group I received daily injections of 2mg testosterone propionate (TP) and was tested for male sexual behavior. Group II, in addition to daily injections of TP, also received injections of 1mg progesterone on five of the ten test days. This group was tested for female sexual behavior. TP was found to exert a facilitory effect on both male and female sexual behavior. Female sexual behavior was enhanced further when progesterone was administered 4 to 6 hours prior to testing. Progesterone, when injected alone, was found to induce lordosis. It was concluded that TP was first being converted to estrogen and it was the estrogen which was responsible for the increase in female sexual behavior. The fact that progesterone, which enhances estrogen-induced lordosis, also enhances testosterone-induced lordosis supports this position.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13567
Subject Headings: Sexual behavior in animals, Testosterone, Hormones, Sex
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Title: THE EFFECT OF DORSAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESIONS ON THE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF THE MALE RAT.
Creator: MILLS, JEANNE THERESA, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Performance on three preoperative and three postoperative copulation tests was compared for male rats given dorsal hippocampal, dorsal hippocampal plus cortical, other lesion, and sham lesions. Dorsal hippocampal lesions produced statistically significant changes in the temporal pacing of some components of sexual behavior, i.e. the post-ejaculatory interval, intercopulatory interval, and total test time decreased. Hippocampal plus cortical lesions had no effect on sexual behavior. The...
Show morePerformance on three preoperative and three postoperative copulation tests was compared for male rats given dorsal hippocampal, dorsal hippocampal plus cortical, other lesion, and sham lesions. Dorsal hippocampal lesions produced statistically significant changes in the temporal pacing of some components of sexual behavior, i.e. the post-ejaculatory interval, intercopulatory interval, and total test time decreased. Hippocampal plus cortical lesions had no effect on sexual behavior. The results are interpreted as supporting a model of inhibition in which a sexual inhibitory process is built up concomitantly with the sexual arousal process.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13700
Subject Headings: Hippocampus (Brain), Sexual behavior in animals
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Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INTRINSIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEVER PRESSING BEHAVIOR AND FOOD REINFORCEMENT IN RATS.
Creator: CHANCE, CATHY A., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: To determine whether or not lever pressing is intrinsically related to food gathering in rats, five adult male white rats were subjected to one week of DRO training, followed by 42 sessions of fixed time and four no food extinction sessions. They were subsequently given the opportunity to autoshape the lever press response for food. During fixed time, a stable pattern of terminal and interim responses developed, which was disrupted by the extinction trials. Lever pressing occurred as an...
Show moreTo determine whether or not lever pressing is intrinsically related to food gathering in rats, five adult male white rats were subjected to one week of DRO training, followed by 42 sessions of fixed time and four no food extinction sessions. They were subsequently given the opportunity to autoshape the lever press response for food. During fixed time, a stable pattern of terminal and interim responses developed, which was disrupted by the extinction trials. Lever pressing occurred as an interim response. Even after extensive response-independent reinforcement, four of the five animals autoshaped in a single 30 min session, with the remaining animal autoshaping by the third session. It is suggested that lever pressing is indeed a prepared response in rats in a food gathering situation and further, that it is part of a chain of responses that begins with a forepaw manipulatory behavior and terminates with the consumption of the pellet.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14060
Subject Headings: Rats--Psychology, Rats--Behavior
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Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE BEHAVIORS IN THIRTEEN MONTH OLD INFANTS: A STUDY OF OBJECT-PERSON PERMANENCE AND QUALITY OF ATTACHMENT.
Creator: CLARK, MARIAN CHERIE., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The relationship between object-person permanence and quality of attachment was assessed in 13 month old infants under equivalent task conditions. Both familiar/salient and unfamiliar/neutral objects and persons were hidden behind large curtains. Contrary to previous findings securely attached infants did not perform differently than insecurely attached babies on the object and person permanence scales. Regardless of security of attachment, babies searched at a higher level for both the...
Show moreThe relationship between object-person permanence and quality of attachment was assessed in 13 month old infants under equivalent task conditions. Both familiar/salient and unfamiliar/neutral objects and persons were hidden behind large curtains. Contrary to previous findings securely attached infants did not perform differently than insecurely attached babies on the object and person permanence scales. Regardless of security of attachment, babies searched at a higher level for both the familiar/salient person and object than for the unfamiliar/neutral person and object. Infants were most likely to search for the mother and least likely to search for the experimenter. Results suggest that the motivational salience of target persons and objects plays an important role in performance on object and person permanence tests and thus indicate a need for more precision in measurement in order to delineate any existing relationship between the cognitive and affective domains in infancy.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14163
Subject Headings: Cognition in children, Attachment behavior in children
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Title: Risk factors in peer victimization: Concurrent and longitudinal findings.
Creator: Hodges, Ernest Van Every, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: This dissertation involved two studies The first evaluated the hypothesis that the behavior problems which place children at risk for victimization by peers are likely to lead to victimization primarily when children are also at "social risk" for victimization. Social risk was defined as lacking supportive friends or as being rejected by the peer group. Subjects were 229 boys and girls in the third through seventh grades (M age = 11.2 years). Sociometric and peer nomination instruments were...
Show moreThis dissertation involved two studies The first evaluated the hypothesis that the behavior problems which place children at risk for victimization by peers are likely to lead to victimization primarily when children are also at "social risk" for victimization. Social risk was defined as lacking supportive friends or as being rejected by the peer group. Subjects were 229 boys and girls in the third through seventh grades (M age = 11.2 years). Sociometric and peer nomination instruments were used to measure behavior problems, friendship variables, peer rejection, and victimization. As predicted, behavior problems (internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and physical weakness) related more strongly to victimization when children had few friends, had friends who were incapable of fulfilling a protective function (e.g., were physically weak), or were rejected by peers than when children had more friends, had friends capable of defending them, or were better liked by peers. Results support the theory that social risk conditions invite and permit abuse of vulnerable children. Study 2 was a one-year longitudinal investigation designed to evaluate whether the behavioral and social problems that characterize victimized children are antecedents of victimization, consequences of victimization, or both. To examine these issues, 173 children from Study 1 were assessed one year later on the same variables that were measured in Study 1. Results provide information about both the antecedents and the outcomes of victimization.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12469
Subject Headings: Psychology, Behavioral, Psychology, Social, Psychology, Developmental
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Title: THE EFFECT OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR ON HYPOTHALAMIC BIOGENIC AMINE CONCENTRATION IN THE INTACT MALE RAT.
Creator: SCHWARTZ, JODI ANN., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: The present study investigated the role of brain serotonin activity in the mediation of masculine sexual behavior in the intact male rat. The results of previous studies suggest a dissociation of the effects of gonadal hormones on central serotonin metabolism and sexual behavior in the male rat. However, serotonin activity was measured some 24 hours after the last test of sexual activity. In the present experiment, animals were assigned to one of five groups, and were sacrificed by...
Show moreThe present study investigated the role of brain serotonin activity in the mediation of masculine sexual behavior in the intact male rat. The results of previous studies suggest a dissociation of the effects of gonadal hormones on central serotonin metabolism and sexual behavior in the male rat. However, serotonin activity was measured some 24 hours after the last test of sexual activity. In the present experiment, animals were assigned to one of five groups, and were sacrificed by decapitation immediately after meeting their respective behavioral criterion. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to measure concentrations of serotonin and its metabolite, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid, in the hypothalamus-preoptic area. Analyses of variance revealed no significant differences in brain serotonin activity as a function of sexual behavior. Results are discussed in the context of the role of biogenic amines in the mediation of masculine sexual behavior in the male rat.
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Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14403
Subject Headings: Biogenic amines, Sexual behavior in animals
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Title: The effects of dispositional perspective taking, cognitive busyness, and situational information on retaliative aggression: An attributional interpretation.
Creator: Jones, Charles Eric, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Previous research has concluded that individuals high in perspective taking respond less aggressively to provocation than do those low in perspective taking. Whether the perspective-taking effect is automatic or not and many other process-related questions remain largely unanswered. One hundred sixteen female college students participated in a competitive reaction-time task, received escalatory negative feedback purportedly from another participant. In addition to being categorized as either...
Show morePrevious research has concluded that individuals high in perspective taking respond less aggressively to provocation than do those low in perspective taking. Whether the perspective-taking effect is automatic or not and many other process-related questions remain largely unanswered. One hundred sixteen female college students participated in a competitive reaction-time task, received escalatory negative feedback purportedly from another participant. In addition to being categorized as either high or low perspective takers, participants also received either high or low levels of situational information about the other and high or low levels of cognitive busyness. Participants high in perspective taking who were under high cognitive load responded significantly less aggressively than did participants low in perspective taking. Results suggest that perspective taking is an automatic process. The findings are discussed in terms of attribution theory, complexity-extremity theory, and in terms of an arousal-dominant response model.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12657
Subject Headings: Psychology, Behavioral, Psychology, Social, Psychology, Experimental
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$fractal time behavior of spontaneous perinatal behaviors associated with REM sleep: A possible ontogenetic adaptation and source of plasticity underlying the emergence of behavioral neophenotypes$

Title: The fractal time behavior of spontaneous perinatal behaviors associated with REM sleep: A possible ontogenetic adaptation and source of plasticity underlying the emergence of behavioral neophenotypes.
Creator: Anderson, Carl Morris, Florida Atlantic University, Terry, Leslie M.
Abstract/Description: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep in adult and neonatal mammals is characterized by episodes of high variability and bursting in brainstem sites associated with spontaneous tonic and phasic behavioral events such as REMs, nuchal inactivity and twitches of the body. REM sleep is the principal behavioral state during fetal and neonatal life and as has been demonstrated by various REM deprivation procedures to be indispensable during this period and to lead to long lasting behavioral defects in...
Show moreRapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep in adult and neonatal mammals is characterized by episodes of high variability and bursting in brainstem sites associated with spontaneous tonic and phasic behavioral events such as REMs, nuchal inactivity and twitches of the body. REM sleep is the principal behavioral state during fetal and neonatal life and as has been demonstrated by various REM deprivation procedures to be indispensable during this period and to lead to long lasting behavioral defects in adult life. The guiding hypothesis throughout this dissertation is that the variability of REM-associated nuchal atonia episodes and other spontaneous motor events reflects the fractal time patterns of a global fetal REM sleep state over multiple timescales serving as a transient behavioral ontogenetic adaptation to changing developmental environments. Further, spontaneous activity over many levels of organization, including phasic REM motor activity during ontogeny, could play a fundamental role in the development of appetitive behavioral processes (e.g., searching and orienting) and other forms of neuroplasticity (e.g., learning and dynamic regulation of receptor fields and maps). The nature of this variability was investigated by measuring the durations of nuchal atonia over extended periods in fetal sheep and neonatal rats, species which are in a REM sleep-like state >50% of the time. Hurst's rescaled range analysis, which affords comparisons between natural time series with short- and long-term correlated fluctuations, indicated that variability in both species over short time scales is statistically similar to longer time scales (i.e., is fractal in time) and remarkably stable over the developmental periods examined. Spontaneous nuchal events in both species were also found to be described by convolutionally stable self-similar Levy distributions, suggesting that activity associated with fetal REM sleep could provide a stable, scale invariant source of correlated stimulation, facilitating integration of new neural changes into developing motor and cortical networks over gestation. These fractal time descriptions of spontaneous prenatal behaviors have implications for conceptualizing the evolutionary mechanisms underlying heterochrony (shifting self-affine relationships between the timing of gene expression and behavioral activity) and the plasticity essential to the genesis of behavioral neophenotypes.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12433
Subject Headings: Sleep--Physiological aspects, Fractals, Fetal behavior
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Title: Linking dynamic social impact theory to social representation theory: The emergence of social representations of aggression through electronic communication.
Creator: Walker, Samantha, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Social representations consist of beliefs, values and norms that influence thought and behavior. Moscovici's Social Representation Theory provides an explanation for how social representations are formed, mutate, and survive, while Dynamic Social Impact Theory provides a framework by which to examine the emergence of macro-social phenomena from everyday communication (i.e., clustering, consolidation and continued diversity). Previous research has not examined, but has assumed, the processes...
Show moreSocial representations consist of beliefs, values and norms that influence thought and behavior. Moscovici's Social Representation Theory provides an explanation for how social representations are formed, mutate, and survive, while Dynamic Social Impact Theory provides a framework by which to examine the emergence of macro-social phenomena from everyday communication (i.e., clustering, consolidation and continued diversity). Previous research has not examined, but has assumed, the processes by which social representations of aggression develop. The purpose of the present study was to examine social representations (SRs) of direct and indirect aggression and the process by which SRs emerge from interpersonal communication. Specifically, participants were randomly assigned to fixed addresses in an electronic social space and communicated with four of their nearest neighbors, for four weeks about direct and indirect verbal aggression. In the present study, most people agreed about the aggressiveness of direct responses whereas judgments about indirect responses were relatively varied.
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Date Issued: 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12621
Subject Headings: Psychology, Behavioral, Psychology, Social, Speech Communication
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