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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 473 169 CG 031 104 AUTHOR McCutcheon, Lynn E., Ed. TITLE North American Journal of Psychology, 2001. ISSN ISSN-1527-7143 PUB DATE 2001-00-00 NOTE 549p.; Published semi-annually. AVAILABLE FROM NAJP, 240 Harbor Dr., Winter Garden, FL 34787 ($30 per annual subscription). Tel: 407-877-8364; Web site: http://najp.8m.com. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT North American Journal of Psychology; v3 n1-3 2001 EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF02/PC22 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Psychology; *Research Tools; *Scholarly Journals; *Social Science Research ABSTRACT "North American Journal of Psychology" publishes scientific papers of general interest to psychologists and other social scientists. Articles included in volume 3 issue 1(March/April 2001) are: "Sense of Humor in Black and White"; "Convergent Validity of the Situational Outlook Questionnaire"; "Alcohol Consumption and Consequences in a Sample of University Undergraduates"; "Psychology and Religion: Indicators of Integration"; "Descriptions of Religious Experience among U.S. Christians and Malaysian Muslims"; "The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men: The Role of Decision Confidence in Outcome Success"; "Disposition toward Thinking Critically: A Comparison of Preservice Teachers and Other University Students"; "An Interview with Robert Sternberg about Learning Disabilities"; "Interdisciplinarity and the Cross-Training of Clinical Psychologists: Preparing Graduates for Hybrid Careers"; "Validity Comparison of the General Ability Measure for Adults with the Wonderlic Personnel Test." Articles included in volume 3 issue 2 (June/July 2001) are: "Parental Disciplinary History and Current Level of Empathy and Moral Reasoning among Late Adolescents"; "An Interview with Russell Eisenman"; "Differential Processes of Emotion Space over Time";. "Healthy Perfectionism and Positive Expectations about Counseling"; "Attitudes toward Perpetration of Sexual Abuse Against Children"; "Self-Protective Pessimism: Optimistic Bias in Reverse"; "Lost Letter Technique: Returned Responses to Battered and Abused Women, Men, and Lesbians"; "Stability of Self-Esteem as Moderator of the Relationship between Level of Self-Esteem and Depression"; "Life after College: Psychology Students" Perceptions of Salary, Business Hiring Criteria, and Graduate Admission Criteria." Articles included in volume 3 issue 3 (December 2001) are: "Boundaries in the Mind: Past Research and Future Directions"; "Religion "s Role in the Terroristic Attack of September 11, 2001"; "Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Empirical Examination of the Covalent Security Attribution Model of User and Nonuser Groups"; "Conjunctive Forms and Conditional Inference in Questions and Statements"; "Monitoring Children"s Behavior in a Remote Community before and Six Years after the Availability of Broadcast TV"; "Effects of a Health and Relationship Education Program on Drug Behaviors"; "Attribution and Reciprocity on International Relations: The Attribution Reciprocity Model"; "Self-Definition in Psychotherapy: Is It Time to Revisit Self-Perception Theory?" (GCP) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 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I O Oce) 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE r'Ameran BEST COPY AVAILABLE Vol. 3, No. 1 2001 3 Advisory Editorial Board ADRIAN FURNHAM MANUEL LONDON Psychology Psychology University College London SUNY, Stony Brook JUTTA HECKHAUSEN KAREN LYNESS Max Planck Institute for Human Management Development and Education Baruch College, CUNY DOUGLAS JACKSON ROBERT PASNAK Psychology Psychology University of Western Ontario George Mason University HEIDI KELLER RICHARD RYAN Psychology Psychology University of Osnabrueck University of Rochester PHILIP ZIMBARDO Psychology Stanford University Editor LYNN E. McCUTCHEON How to Subscribe to The North American Journal of Psychology All subscriptions are on a calendar year basis only. If you order late in the year, the earlier issue will be sent to you. Institutional rate:$65. Individual rate: $30. Add $7 for Canadian subscriptions. Add $8 for subscriptionsoutside North America. North American Journal of Psychology is published semi-annually in June and December. Now visit our website at http://najp.8m.com North American Journal of Psychology March/April 2001 ISSN 1527-7143 Vol. 3, No.1 Sense of Humor in Black and White 1 James A. Thorson, F. C. Powell, & V. T. Samuel A Comparative Study of Multi-component Weight Loss Treatments: 13 A Replication & Exploratory Look at Female Smokers, Nonsmokers, & Participant BMIs David L Johnson & Gary D. Brinker Convergent Validity of the Situational Outlook Questionnaire: 31 Discriminating Levels of Perceived Support for Creativity Scott G. Isaksen & Kenneth J. Lauer Alcohol Consumption & Consequences in a Sample of University 41 Undergraduates: Patterns & Relations to Internalized Distress & Religious Affiliation J. M. Oliver, Cynthia K. S. Reed, & Bruce W. Smith Psychology & Religion: Indicators of Integration 61 Amber Hague Descriptions of Religious Experience Among U.S. Christians & 77 Malaysian Muslims Michael E. Nielsen & Rick Stevens The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men: The Role of Decision 91 Confidence in Outcome Success R. Prasad Bingi, David L Turnipseed, & George M. Kasper Disposition Toward Thinking Critically: A Comparison of Pre- 109 service Teachers & Other University Students M.E.Eigenberger, K.A Sealander, J.A. Jacobs, & S.M. Shellady Age-discrepant Relationships: Do These Romances Fare Well? 119 E. Zak, E. Armer, K. Edmunds, T. Fleury, M. Sarris, & B. Shatynski The Cognitive Style Index and the Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: 123 A Factor Analytic Study H.J. Murphy, P.A. Doucette, W.E. Kelleher, J.G. Reid, & J.D. Young it 5 An Interview With Robert Sternberg About Learning Disabilities 131 Robert Sternberg & Michael F. Shaughnessy Interdisciplinarity and the Cross-training of Clinical Psychologists: 139 Preparing Graduates for Hybrid Careers Daniel Holland Book Review: Guiding Your Child Through Grief 171 Ross Robak Validity Comparison of the General Ability Measure for Adults with 173 the Wonder lic Personnel Test J.P. Leverett, T.D. Matthews, K.S. Lassiter, & N.L. Bell Editor's Comments This is the first issue for 2001, our third volume. NAJP was issued twice a year for the first two years, but this year we are doing threethis one, which you are probably getting in late March or early April, a summer issue, followed by one in the late Fall. Thanks again to all the reviewers, all of whom did a marvelous job of critiquing papers promptly and with great insight. Without our reviewers, this journal would simply not have the quality it has today. As some of you already know, we are now abstractedin Psychological Abstracts. You probably do not need to be reminded how much that means in terms of widespread circulation of the articles we publish. I received a call recently from a person representing a university library. He wanted an article that had appeared in our last issue- found out about it through the online version of Psych. Abstracts. This means that all of our previous issues are or will be abstracted soon. With this issue, James Jones, one of the most respected individuals in the area of social psychology, joins our advisory editorial board. Weare privileged to have him with us. Congratulations to Phil Zimbardo, another board member, for the national honor which he won. Special thanks to Mike Shaughnessy, who has a knack for conducting great interviews on behalf of NAJP. This issue features an interview with Robert Sternberg, in which he discusses his research and his viewson learning disabilities. Lynn E. McCutcheon, editor iii Sense of Humor in Black and White James A. Thorson F. C. Powell University of Nebraska at Omaha V. T. Samuel Grambling State University There are many articles in the literature comparing examples of black and white humor, but there is surprisingly little information providing data giving comparisons of black and white samples in terms of sense of humor. This article compares scale and item scores of 116 Black and 357 White university students on the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale. Overall scores were not significantly different, and there were only a few significant differences in individual item scores. "Humor is a way to keep from killing yourself...it removes anxiety. Other kids threw rocks. I make jokes." -- Abe Burrows, as cited in Dorinson & Boskin, 1988. Ways to describe cultures are found in ethnic humor. Especially with regard to coping humor, some cultures exhibit characteristically self- deprecating humor. This may in fact be a display of strength, to paradoxically poke fun at one's own weakness. Freud (1916) would have argued that this is the highest form of coping. Valliant (1977) calls humor the most elegant of the defenses. Lefcourt and Martin (1986) have demonstrated that humor is used as a potent coping mechanism. Sense of humor itself has been shown in a number of studies