Daniel Perlman

• PhD
• Professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The main goal of this study was to investigate the association between sexual satisfaction and mental health, and the combined effect of two previously found, statistically significant moderators: partner status and sexual abstinence. In-person interviews were conducted with 223 participants (49.327% males and 50.673% females). The effect of sexual...

This entry defines the concept of hooking up; identifies historical and contemporary factors fostering a hookup culture; indicates the prevalence of hooking up as well as demographic and other correlates (e.g., situational factors and personality attributes) associated with hooking up; considers hooking up before, during, and after college; looks a...

This commentary on Frost and Gola's () article first identifies strengths of their article. It then discusses two directions along which their original work might be expanded: (i) the logic of the argument and (ii) the type of data collected. © 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

This commentary on Frost and Gola's () article expands on the discussion of the policy and practical implications of their findings. Specifically, we highlight the potential impact of the Supreme Court's decision from the positive response hypothesis and the more probable structural response hypothesis (i.e., that the decision will serve to polariz...

This article provides a concluding commentary for a thematic issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) dealing with the intertwining of psychology, history, and social issues. First we show how the social issues addressed and the scholarly approach in this journal collection are consistent with the JSI tradition. Then we contend that the question...

Informed by socioecological and dyadic approaches to understanding marriage, the current study examined the patterning of gender-typed attributes among 120 Mexican immigrant opposite sex couples and the subsequent links with spouses' reports of marital satisfaction. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to identify typologies of couples based on s...

Research has found a relationship between sexual satisfaction and psychological health in prisoners, although few studies have focused on possible moderators of this relationship. The main foci of this study of a sample of prison inmates were as follows: (a) the association between sexual satisfaction and psychological health and (b) the moderating...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the moderating effect of having vs. not having a and quality of life. In-person interviews were conducted with 55 male and 64 female inmates from the Topas Penitentiary (Spain). Higher levels of social loneliness and lower levels of sexual satisfaction were associated with lower levels of quality of life...

This study investigated the differences in loneliness, sexual satisfaction, and quality of life among three groups of prison inmates: inmates in a heterosexual romantic relationship with a fellow prisoner, inmates with a partner outside the prison, and inmates without a partner. In-person interviews with 70 male and 70 female inmates from the Topas...

This article begins with a discussion of the functions that publications serve, and ends with speculations on the future of SPSSI's publication programs. The five main sections of the article describe the SPSSI book publishing program, separately review the history of both SPSSI-sponsored books and SPSSI's journal publications, provide a citation a...

This article examines the place of relationships in our daily lives and in the field of psychology. The first section of the article offers reasons why relationships are central for humans. Next, the place of relationships in the history, institutional aspects, and subfields of psychology is presented. Then a paradox about relationships is presente...

This article examines the place of relationships in our daily lives and in the field of psychology. The first section of the article offers reasons why relationships are central for humans. Next, the place of relationships in the history, institutional aspects, and subfields of psychology is presented. Then a paradox about relationships is presente...

The main research questions of this study were (1) How long have adults in the Netherlands and the United States known members of their nonkin networks? (2) What are the predictors of long-standing nonkin relationships? and (3) Which predictors are recognizable in both societies? The data came from the NESTOR-LSN survey (3,229 adults aged 55 to 89...

Three hypotheses were derived from our basic premise that, among women, social factors are crucial in the choice of a high status, non traditional career: (1) Women applying to nontraditional careers should have lower affiliative needs than women applying to traditional careers. (2) As compared with women entering a traditional field, women enterin...

Several childhood factors are reported to be associated with a homosexual orientation in men, including gender nonconformity and rejection by parents and peers. The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between these childhood factors and attachment anxiety (the tendency to experience anxiety regarding potential loss and rejection i...

This article provides a commentary on a set of five other articles reporting European and Canadian studies of loneliness among seniors. It places those works involving Canadian, Dutch, Finnish, and Welsh samples in the larger context of research on loneliness; offers reflections on the methods and findings reported in the articles; and addresses th...

This chapter provides a commentary on the contents of the Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships. These reflections focus on (a) three emphases of the volume (defining sex, relational aspects of sexuality, problematic aspects of relationships); (b) the book's treatment of culture and selected demographic type variables (gender, race, sexual...

This paper introduces a special issue of the journal Personal Relationships dealing with context and relationships. It reflects on the state of the literature and discusses five approaches to the interplay of context and relationships.

Recent research on intergenerational faith transfer has argued that (a) parents have a direct effect on the adolescence acquisition of religiosity and (b) parental effects are mediated through congregation and peers. This study tests the channeling hypothesis, which argues that parental influences are mediated through both peer selection and congre...

Peer relations of lonely and peer rejected children, Steven R.Asher relational competence, Bruce Carpenter ducal career couples, Lucia Albino Gilbert life changes and the network of personal relationships - theoretical and methodological issues, Jenny de Jong-Gierveld and Pearl Dykstra intimacy motivation, Daniel McAdams family fights and their esc...

While public opinion associates old age with loneliness, some social scientists argue that emotional responses such as loneliness decline in the later years of life. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine life cycle fluctuations in loneliness. To do so, a meta-analysis of 14 data sets involving over 25,000 respondents was performed. T...

This study investigates the influence of resource exchanges and of gender role on marital power by comparing dual-career and single-career couples on these variables. On the basis of social exchange theory, the two types of couples, with their differing resource exchange patterns, were predicted to differ in marital power. Wives of differing gender...

The present volume is thematically focused on the development of intimate relations. . . . Most of the chapters in the book focus on relationships in which people have achieved, or are striving to achieve, intimacy. Some chapters, however, examine close relationships which have failed, or are failing, to provide intimacy. Thus the paradoxical pheno...

this introductory chapter reviews the existing literature on the development of intimate relationships / we concentrate our attention here on past conceptual approaches / in doing so, we cite research for illustrative purposes, but we do not attempt a comprehensive review of empirical evidence we first ask: what is intimacy / why is it important...

Presents a conceptual analysis of the revelation of loneliness. Both direct and indirect evidence suggests that lonely people are reluctant to disclose their condition. This may be because they do not realize they are lonely, they believe it would lead to a negative reaction, they believe they should solve their own problems, or they do not believe...

Draws on the psychological and sociological literature on social support and the family to examine: (1) the family as a social network and exchange system; (2) the consequences, especially for well-being, of family relationships; (3) social support (SSP) and the family; and (4) the promotion of SSP for individuals and families. While there is consi...

The purpose of this study was to examine the intergenerational transmission of loneliness. Data were collected via questionnaires from 130 parent-daughter triads. Consistent with a lineage transmission perspective, mothers' and daughters' loneliness scores were significantly correlated, r(128) = .26, p < .01. Child-rearing practices, especially a l...

This study examined the relationship between loneliness and religiosity as well as the relationships between religiosity and variables associated with loneliness (e.g., the potential antecedents of loneliness and the nature of the loneliness experience). The sample consisted of 76 conservative believers, 80 nonconservative believers and 76 nonbelie...

Explored the theory and research that suggests that conservative religiosity is associated with a sense of life purpose, as measured by the Purpose in Life Test (PLT). 116 female and 116 male undergraduates classified as nonbelievers, conservative believers, or nonconservative believers completed the PLT. Results show that the PLT consists of 2 fac...

According to the popular song, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, you can’t have one without the other.” Literally, of course, this is not true; but, as the song implies, most people believe that love and marriage augment each other. Both are better together than either is separately.

In one of the early classic articles on loneliness, Zilboorg (1938) claimed that lonely individuals are hostile and aggressive. The present research tested this proposition. Two samples of males were given a measure of loneliness and various measures of hostility. Ninety-one subjects in the second study were also given the opportunity to administer...

Earlier studies on gender differences in loneliness appear to have produced contradictory results. However, when 39 existing data sets were classified according to whether they used the UCLA scale (N = 28) or a self-labeling measure (N = II) of loneliness, the results revealed a clear pattern. Statistically significant sex differences are not usual...

Scholars from such disciplines as psychology, family studies, sociology, gerontology, communications and psychiatry have long been interested in the study of personal relationships. Yet all too often these social scientists have worked in isolation and in ignorance of the contributions made in other disciplines. In 1979, Robert Hinde, a British eth...

This article uses citation analysis to identify important scholars and influential recent contributions in personality and social psychology. The number of pages on which scholars were cited in seven current social psychology texts was used as a measure of individual eminence. A list was compiled of all the articles (N=841) and chapters (N=38) publ...

Reviews the book, Consistency in Social Behavior: The Ontario Symposium (Vol. 2), edited by Mark P. Zanna, E. Tory Higgins, and C. Peter Herman (1982). The volume has two major foci: the consistency of the individual's behaviour in different situations, and the consistency between people's attitudes and their behaviour. These issues have been class...

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1982, Vol 27(1), 50-51. Reviews the book, The Anatomy of Loneliness edited by Joseph Hartog, J. Ralph Audy, and Yehudi A. Cohen (1980). This volume provides a valuable sourcebook of multidisciplinary views on loneliness. It also provides a baseline of the area's development thr...

Based on attribution theory analysis, the authors predicted that actors attribute their behavior more to internal and unstable causes than do observers. From this logic, actors should also assess as less probable future occurrences of their own behavior. These hypotheses were tested by having inmates and officials at a medium security penitentiary...

This study examined inmates' explanations (or attributions) about the causes of their criminal behavior. It was predicted that inmates with previous records, as well as those who acted alone would attribute their crimes to internal, dispositional factors. Also, it was expected that multiple explanations would be given for severe offenses. It was an...

In an extension of research by N. S. Endler et al (see record 1979-26949-001), citations in 10 introductory psychology textbooks were used as an index of the eminence of psychologists in the US, UK, and Canada. The 10 most prominent psychologists were Freud, Skinner, Piaget, C. Rogers, Pavlov, S. Schachter, A. Bandura, E. Erikson, H. Harlow, and N...

Loneliness is a common problem (Weiss, 1973). This is apparently as true in the British Isles and Europe as it is in America. Although numerous articles and books have been written about loneliness, the empirically based, social psychological study of loneliness is in its infancy. In 1975 the senior author of the present paper began a program of lo...

Examined the communication skills of 66 female undergraduates who were either chronically lonely, situationally lonely, or not lonely. "Sender" Ss were videotaped while they watched and rated the pleasantness of 25 slides. These videotapes were then shown to "receiver" Ss who made judgments about the sender Ss' reactions to each slide. Results indi...

Analysis of the bibliographic behavior of text authors is shown to be useful in a variety of assessment problems.

Announces the establishment of Canadian Psychological Review as a generalist and professional affairs journal to be known in 1980 as Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne During 1979 the journal will retain its present name. Daniel Perlman has been appointed editor of the revamped journal for a four-year term. Additional changes in function of...

Announces, in French, the establishment of Canadian Psychological Review as a generalist and professional affairs journal to be known in 1980 as Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne During 1979 the journal will retain its present name. Daniel Perlman has been appointed editor of the revamped journal for a four-year term. Additional changes in...

Nathaniel N. Wagner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 31, 1930. He received a BA from Long Island University in 1951 and completed his MA and PhD at Columbia University. From 1956 to 1962, Wagner held various short-term and part-time appointments: Clinical psychologist in the U.S. Army and instructor at the University of Georgia, Pennsylva...

Examined the communication skills of 66 female undergraduates who were either chronically lonely, situationally lonely, or not lonely. "Sender" Ss were videotaped while they watched and rated the pleasantness of 25 slides. These videotapes were then shown to "receiver" Ss who made judgments about the sender Ss' reactions to each slide. Results indi...

Our purpose was to investigate, cross-culturally, university students' premarital sexual standards. A number of predictions were derived from the work of Cristensen, Reiss, and Burr. Data were collected via self-administered questionnaires from over 1100 English-speaking respondents in five "cultures" (four countries). These cultural contexts had a...

This special issue consists of eight articles, each addressing the role that attributions play in some part or parts of the criminal justice system. Together, these articles demonstrate the practical importance that attributions made about criminals—or about others including witnesses, victims, and jurors—have upon subsequent judgments of guilt, se...

The number of pages on which scholars were cited in eight recent social psychology texts was used as a measure of eminence. This article describes the technique, lists the 199 social psychologists identified as the most eminent, and provides biographical information about them. Finally, the article presents evidence concerning the reliability and v...

The present study derived hypotheses from Kelley's attribution model and recent research (Mitchell and Byrne, 1973) showing jurors' attitudes influence the length of sentences they recommend. Psychiatric nursing students (N = 79) were presented with 8 hypothetical case histories of convicted drug offenders, and were asked the causes of the offender...

Reports an empirical study of loneliness among 158 senior citizens (average age 70 yrs) in Canada, each of whom completed a self-administered questionnaire. Greater loneliness was associated with less friendship contact, fewer close friends, social anxiety, ineffectiveness in influencing others, low marital satisfaction, and low life satisfaction....

The findings reported in this paper were based on a representative, city wide sample (N= 708) of Calgary youths (aged 15–24). Twenty six per cent of the respondents reported having used marijuana “in the past six months”. Contrary to Smart's (1970) differential school drop out hypothesis, no decline in drug use was reported by 17 and 18 year old st...

The present study derived hypotheses from Kelley's attribution model and recent research (Mitchell and Byrne, 1973) showing jurors' attitudes influence the length of sentences they recommend. Psychiatric nursing students (N=79) were presented with eight hypothetical case histories of convicted drug offenders, and were asked the causes of the offend...

The present study derived hypotheses from Kelley's attribution model and recent research (Mitchell and Byrne, 1973) showing jurors' attitudes influence the length of sentences they recommend. Psychiatric nursing students (N=79) were presented with eight hypothetical case histories of convicted drug offenders, and were asked the causes of the offend...

In this study, subjects had four learning trials to master a list of paired associates. The experimental instruc tions were phrased so that subjects would either attribute their learning rate to internal or external factors. After each trial on which they made errors, subjects were "punished" by a confed erate. Half the subjects were told the confe...

Earlier studies relating locus of control to social action have produced mixed results. The present investigation examined the moderating effects of perceived outcome on the relationship between activism in the form of anti-pollution behavior and I-E. A representative sample (n = 433) of Winnipeg's adult population was interviewed to obtain data. A...

This research examined the hypothesized interaction between sex and interpersonal relationship by comparing the actual self-disclosures made to best friends and strangers by male and female subjects. It was hypothesized that subjects would disclose more to best friends than to strangers, that females would disclose more than males to best friends,...

The present study used videotaped horse races to test Kelley's attribution theory of the way people perceive the causes of behavior. The subjects (81 college students) were given programs containing specially constructed information about the horses before each race and afterward completed a questionnaire indicating their perceptions about the hors...

The effects of personality traits and volunteer bias in sexual standards research were studied. Two hundred and fifty-four subjects completed Jackson's Personality Research Form (PRF) and were subsequently sent either a sex or a control questionnaire. Return rates for the two groups were comparable. Also, the analyses of the PRF scores failed to sh...

In an earlier study done at a conservative campus, co-eds with high self-esteem were sexually conservative (Stratton and Spitzer, 1967). The present investigation was done at a moderate Canadian campus and a liberal New York state college previously studied in 1959 by Reiss (1967). Over time, the New York campus has become more liberal. Consistent...

Pictures of black and white stimulus persons were shown to 96 white college students with different exposure frequencies (0, 1, 5, or 10) for different picture. Subjects saw the stimulus persons either in positive settings, neutral settings, or negative settings. Analysis of variance of changes in trait ratings of the stimulus persons revealed sign...

chart some of the fluctuations in loneliness that occur in conjunction with human development and the family life cycle loneliness: definition, demographics, and causes are there certain times in life or certain family life roles that are . . . linked to loneliness how do parent-child and marital relations contribute to loneliness do family...

Used a 3 * 3 * 2 factorial design to examine how the intensity (high, low, or no) of an adult's exhortations to be generous plus her responsibility (high, low, or no) for hypocritically acting greedy affected the reactions of 6th grade boys (N = 84) attending 2 different schools. Contrary to Bryan's 1970 findings, more intense preaching elicited la...

This bibliography on the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education was compiled from materials published by the Center for Research and Learning at the University of Michigan. Its 74 references are primarily documents and books published in the 1950's and 1960's, along with a few articles from educational journals. (AF)

Reviews the books, Political Socialization: An Analytic Study by Richard E. Dawson and Kenneth Prewitt (1969); Political Socialization by Kenneth P. Langton (1969); and Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization by Fred I. Greenstein (1969). For people interested in the interface between psychology and politica...

Traducción de: Social Psychology Contenido: Definición, Historia y Perspectivas; Métodos de Investigación; Socialización; Actitudes y Creencias; Predicción de la Conducta; Teoría de la Atribución; Percepción Social; Relaciones Interpersonales; Atracción; Soledad; Sexualidad Humana; Violencia y Agresión; Ayuda, Influencia del Medio y del Grupo sobre...

Traducción de: Social psychology Incluye bibliografía e índice