Re: Touch and aggression

1999-09-06 Thread SNRandall
Perhaps of some interest to those of you following this discussion at the psychosocial level, is this recent review of physiological effects associated with nurturing touch or lack thereof: Int J Dev Neurosci 1998 Jun-Jul;16(3-4):261-70 Responses to maternal separation: mechanisms and mediator

Re: East Timor

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Scoles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am going to abuse this bandwidth this morning to ask you all to please > think very carefully about the apparent hypocrisy of the US's failure to act > to protect the innocent people of East Timor Yes--although I have no doubt that this abuse was done with good inten

Re: Touch and aggression

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Huff
At 11:42 PM -0400 9/4/99, Beth Benoit wrote: >at similar locations in America. She found that Parisian children >and adolescents >touch each other (stroking arms, putting arms on each others' shoulders, etc.) >much more frequently than do Americans of the same age. She found American >adolescen

Re: course evaluations

1999-09-06 Thread Michael Ofsowitz
1) Congratulations to TIPS - the digest version just reached volume #1000. And 1001. (Each day the digest appears it has a new vol. number.) 2) On free speech and the like, if I may be allowed a simplistic contribution: Rick Adams wrote a lot of things like: >my argument that forbidding such

East Timor

1999-09-06 Thread Drnanjo
Listmembers, I am going to abuse this bandwidth this morning to ask you all to please think very carefully about the apparent hypocrisy of the US's failure to act to protect the innocent people of East Timor who are now again being slaughtered because they dared to express their desire for ind

Violence and the Brain

1999-09-06 Thread Pollak, Edward
I had written that > > The obvious (albeit older) book is Mark & Ervin's Violence and the Brain > but > > I'm sure it's very dated. > To which Stephen Black responded: > I'd be cautious in recommending this book, especially if it's the only > source consulted. Mark and Ervin are enthusiasts of