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P Payne

Publications and source records attributed to P Payne.

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PubMed1981

Organization of an information system for food and nutrition programmes in Costa Rica.

This paper discusses the information needed for multidisciplinary planning aimed at reducing nutritional deprivation in Costa Rica. In recent years, an approach has been developed for organizing data and information so as to define and described target groups of households. The development of a functional classification, a central activity of the Sistema de Información en Nutrición (SIN), is described and a preliminary description of the population groups affected by malnutrition presented. The major objectives of SIN are outlined and the possibilities of applying the same system to other countries discussed.

Costa Rica↗
PubMed1980

Stress effects on the nonverbal behavior of repressors and sensitizers.

Differences between repressors and sensitizers in nonverbal behavior were found in two studies of male and female undergraduates which manipulated the amount of stress present during an interaction between an S and a confederate (C). In Study I (N = 72), sensitizers used less eye contact and more personal space than measures of personal space and eye contact, intensified the stress manipulation, and added two distinct types of stressors (interpersonal and situational). Significant differences in the same direction as in Study I were again observed between repressors and sensitizers in the use of personal space. Level of eye contact for repression-sensitization was significantly different in the second half of the interaction, though opposite in direction to found in Study I. The reversal was explained by focusing on the information-gathering versus the emotional-communication functions of eye contact. Only interpersonal stress produced significant differences in the amount of eye contact used as well as interacting significantly with stress and repression-sensitization.

Female↗
PubMed1975

Autonomic responses of paranoid, nonparanoid schizophrenic, and normal subjects to affective visual stimulation.

This investigation utilized a procedure designed to determine patterns of cognitive appraisal, and autonomic reactivity which characterize groups of normals, and paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics. Results indicated that both groups of schizophrenics evidenced electrodermal habituation and increased finger pulse constriction. Normals indicated that stress stimuli became less disturbing over trials and displayed both electrodermal and digital vasomotor habituation. Electrodermal habituation curves for paranoids and normals were similar, with nonparanoids evidencing slower habituation. Paranoids tended to under-rate or deny their emotional reactions.

Adult↗