Word: reinisch
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...when Russian Zoologist Elie Metchnikoff stuck a rose thorn into the larva of a starfish and a short time later observed that the thorn had been completely surrounded by cells. The cells were phagocytes. "These little guys go back in evolution a very long way," says Carol Reinisch of the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. "They have the ability to distinguish between self and nonself, which is the crucial distinction...
...June Reinisch, a clinical psychologist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, also finds Hite's statistics to be of limited value. The sample is highly self-selected, she says (indeed, only 4.5% of the 100,000 questionnaires mailed were returned), and probably reflects a disproportion of malcontents. "Unhappy people are more willing to answer these questions than happy people," says Reinisch. Others object to the vagueness of Hite's subject matter and the questions she asks...
...Reinisch of the Kinsey Institute is one of many social scientists who challenge Hite's finding that 70% of women married more than five years are having affairs. Kinsey's figure for infidelity, reported in 1953, was 26%, and more recent studies, including the Redbook poll, have shown little change. Others dispute Hite's allegation that 91% of divorcees initiated the split-up. Women do take the first step in the majority of divorces, according to Berkeley Psychologist Judith Wallerstein, but her own studies indicate that the proportion is closer to two-thirds...
...members of the Radcliffe chapter ofthis national organization are Judith R. Barish,Maisy M. Chan, Marion C. Eakin, Deborah Tan Hung,Elizabeth Ransome, Karin M. Reinisch, Marilynn M.Richtarik, Joan Roanine, Stark, Stroud and Wohl
...United States, also as girls, at puberty retained their female gender identity! If anything, this is "stunning confirmation" of the powerful effect of the social and cultural environment in influencing human behavior. Numerous other problems with the Dominican study have been pointed out (R. R. Rubin, J. M. Reinisch and R. F. Haskett, Science 211, 1318, 1981). This is only one example of the selective nature of Konner's evidence...