The suicide class is 91 percent white,2′ usually well educated, and at least middle class. They are the success class. Or at least they were — until they last their job or their savings. But why suicide when I’ve been saying it’s feeling not loved or needed that ‘s the catalyst? Because the men who […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
The Role of Memory Self-Efficacy
Belief in one’s ability to accomplish things is a pervasive theme in literature, religion, psychotherapy, and many other diverse arenas (Berry, 1999; Cavanaugh & Green, 1990). As it applies to memory, belief in oneself is referred to as memory self-efficacy; it is the belief that one will be able to perform a specific task. This […]
Why do women attempt suicide more often than men?
Why is a woman three times more likely than a man to attempt suicide? We often hear it is because she wants attention, but that doesn’t leave us with an understanding of what she wants the attention to accomplish: she wants to become the priority of those she loves rather than always prioritizing them. She […]
Do women refuse to commit suicide because it is a selfish act?
ITEM Jimmy Stewart s film character considers kilng himself for his $5,000 insurance policy for his wife. The film is called It’s a Wonderful Life. (Wonder what he would do if it were a homble life!) ITEM When the farming crisis led to foreclosures and bankruptcies in the upper midwestem states in the early 1980s. […]
Age Differences in Metamemory
Researchers have explored age differences in metamemory mainly by using questionnaires (see Berry, 1999; Hertzog & Hultsch, 2000 for reviews). Many questionnaires have been developed over the years. Some of them, such as the Metamemory in Adulthood questionnaire (Dixon, Hultsch, & Hertzog, 1988) and the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (Gilewski, Zelinski, & Schaie, 1990), tap several […]
Aspects of Memory Self-Evaluations
Researchers of memory self-evaluation have focused primarily on two types of awareness about memory. The first type involves knowledge about how memory works and what we believe to be true about it; this type of self-evaluation is referred to as metamemory. For instance, we may know that recall is typically harder than recognition, that memory […]
The Street
The street is not often thought of as an institution. It is something we walk and drive along, or that chickens cross. Yet a famous sociological text is called, with only mild irony, Street Corner Society, and we speak of ‘street-wise’ kids. It is at least a definite social milieu, with particular social relations. A […]
Self-Evaluations of Memory Abilities
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What are the major types of memory selfevaluations? • What age differences have been found in metamemory? • How do younger and older adults compare on memory monitoring tasks? How is task experience important? E ugene has just reached his 70th birthday. However, he is greatly concerned. He has believed since he […]
Sadist or Masochist? Voyeur or Victim?
Mainstream media and legal discourses responded to innuendoes of Karla Homolka’s possible sadism in a typically hysterical manner. On the one hand, they vilified her, considering her inhumanly evil and more wicked than her male partner;16 on the other hand, they hurriedly scrambled to rewrite her tale as one of loving self-sacrifice, or, in other […]
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS?
The question of how this transformation came about is almost never asked.1 Instead, historians, literary critics, philosophers, legal theorists, and other scholars routinely take it for granted, and focus instead on its consequences, often supposing that the change was the result of new scientific ideas. Particularly influential in cementing this presumption has been the work […]