Donald U Robertson

RationaleN-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists (e.g., PCP, ketamine) have been shown to impair learning/memory. Well documented in animal models, only limited research in humans has been reported. Findings to date are similar to results of animal studies; however, antagonists are typically administered before the learning experience. This may be problematic as memory failure could be secondary to inattention induced by the psychotomimetic effects of these drugs and/or ...

Efforts to identify men who batter women in clinical settings have increased in recent years, but batterer research in United States federal prisons is lacking; low security federal prisons are logical places to consider batterer screening and treatment given the number of men, the domestic violence "risk markers" associated with these men and the likelihood they will be released and return to female partners. This study examined intake assessment data for 115 low security federal ...

Three experiments explored the effects of preexisting attitudes on memory for texts using Kintsch's (1988) Construction Integration model as a framework for the investigation. Attitude instances were presented in the microstructure of texts to separate attitude and topic effects, making a stringent test of attitude effects. Preexisting attitudes were shown to interact with attitude texts over delay although not in a direct or expected fashion. These results emphasize the need to ...