Assessing Attitudes toward Gay Marriage among Selected Christian Groups Using the Lost-Letter Technique

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Morales Waugh ◽  
Edmund V. Plake ◽  
Beth Menees Rienzi
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Return Rates ◽  
Controversial Topic

100 each envelopes were distributed to Christian church parking lots and general public parking lots Letters were addressed to either the “Gay Marriage Foundation” or to a neutral organization. Significantly more neutral letters ( n = 75) were returned than “Gay Marriage Foundation” letters ( n = 36) from both types of locations, but no differences were found for return rates. Gay marriage may be a controversial topic for people in this area of California. The limitations of the lost-letter technique prohibit fine distinctions; however, one may infer attitudes toward gay marriage may not be more negative among Christian church attendees than in the general public.

Gay Marriage Affiliation and Location in Return of Lost Letters: Reply to Waugh, Plake, and Rienzi (2000)

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-318
Author(s):  
F. Stephen Bridges
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Previous Conclusion

Reinspection of Waugh, Plake, and Rienzi's 2000 data allowed for several additional analyses. Statistical confirmation was found for no more negative attitudes toward gay marriage as measured by returned responses among churchgoers than among the general public. Confirmation was also found for their previous conclusion that the putative gay marriage controversy among Christian church attendees would be greater than among the general public, but for reasons different from those they proposed. Finally, it is argued that the limitations for the lost letter technique in “prohibiting fine distinctions” is not always correct because their analysis of one research question seemed not too subtle a distinction for the technique.

Social Responsiveness toward Mental Patients: The General Public and Others

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Page
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
General Public ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Social Responsiveness ◽  
Mental Patients ◽  
The Public ◽  
Return Rates ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychiatric Staff ◽  
Personal Costs

The present study investigated the social responsiveness of the general public, and of psychiatric hospital staff, using Mil-gram's (1969) lost-letter technique. The public did not return fewer (or more) letters believed to be addressed to mental patients. Highest return rates were observed when personal costs to the finder were negligible. Psychiatric staff returned significantly fewer letters than did the general public. Other research, and implications of the findings, are outlined.

scholarly journals Sistem Informasi Klinik GKI Raya Hankam Berbasis Desktop

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Albertus Dimas Pratomo ◽  
Ridha Sefina Samosir ◽  
Erwin Syah Rani
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
General Public ◽  
Clinical Information System ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Service Facility ◽  
Data Record

GKI Raya Hankam Clinic is a health service facility owned by Indonesian Christian Church. GKI Raya Hankam Clinic aims to serve health for the general public who have health problems. The purpose of this research is to build and implement a clinical information system GKI Raya Hankam based on desktop. Researcher used prototyping methods to develop systems. In research generated by information system clinic of GKI Raya Hankam based on desktop can help patient data storage, drug data, record transactions and print receipt or payment transactions. This system can also help search patient data and drugs if the user wants to find the required data. The existence of this clinical information system, clinic of GKI Raya Hankam can easily meet the needs and manage patient data, medicine and payment.

scholarly journals The Designing the Smart Parking Finder

2020 ◽  
pp. 588-595
Author(s):  
Fernando Fernando ◽  
◽  
Verrel Vadilan Rizky ◽  
Yohan Yohan ◽  
Ford Lumban Gaol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Search Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Smart Parking

Parking lots are needed by the general public, especially for those who bring vehicles. The problem is the large numbers of vehicles can cause limitation of the parking lots especially in malls or other public places. Usually people driving around the whole parking lots to find the available ones. when the parking lots are all full, driver must search for other places to park their vehicle immediately. Designing the Smart Parking Finder has the purpose of making it easier for users to get available parking spaces and showing the location of the existing parking lot. On the other hand, it also facilitates the search for parking lots, but can reduce the search time for parking lots, and can also save fuel. For now, the application is still for some parking lots at the mall that have collaborated.

Approaches for TEM imaging of cavitation in toughened nylon

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 352-353
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Polymer Systems ◽  
Selective Staining ◽  
Structure Property Relationships ◽  
Rubber Toughened ◽  
Shear Yield ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Diamond Knife

A controversial topic in the study of structure-property relationships of toughened polymer systems is the internal cavitation of toughener particles resulting from damage on impact or tensile deformation.Detailed observations of the influence of morphological characteristics such as particle size distribution on deformation mechanisms such as shear yield and cavitation could provide valuable guidance for selection of processing conditions, but TEM observation of damaged zones presents some experimental difficulties.Previously published TEM images of impact fractured toughened nylon show holes but contrast between matrix and toughener is lacking; other systems investigated have clearly shown cavitated impact modifier particles. In rubber toughened nylon, the physical characteristics of cavitated material differ from undamaged material to the extent that sectioning of heavily damaged regions by cryoultramicrotomy with a diamond knife results in sections of greater than optimum thickness (Figure 1). The detailed morphology is obscured despite selective staining of the rubber phase using the ruthenium trichloride route to ruthenium tetroxide.

A Review of the Role of Cue Processing in Task Switching

2013 ◽  
Vol 221 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerstin Jost ◽  
Wouter De Baene ◽  
Iring Koch ◽  
Marcel Brass
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Task Switching ◽  
Task Switch ◽  
Task Set ◽  
Switch Costs ◽  
Set Switching ◽  
Controversial Topic ◽  
Cue Encoding ◽  
Cue Processing

The role of cue processing has become a controversial topic in research on cognitive control using task-switching procedures. Some authors suggested a priming account to explain switch costs as a form of encoding benefit when the cue from the previous trial is repeated and hence challenged theories that attribute task-switch costs to task-set (re)configuration. A rich body of empirical evidence has evolved that indeed shows that cue-encoding repetition priming is an important component in task switching. However, these studies also demonstrate that there are usually substantial “true” task-switch costs. Here, we review this behavioral, electrophysiological, and brain imaging evidence. Moreover, we describe alternative approaches to the explicit task-cuing procedure, such as the usage of transition cues or the task-span procedure. In addition, we address issues related to the type of cue, such as cue transparency. We also discuss methodological and theoretical implications and argue that the explicit task-cuing procedure is suitable to address issues of cognitive control and task-set switching.

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