RESUMO
Site visits are conducted by National Institutes of Health review groups when obstacles arise in peer appraisal of research projects. Because such visits provide a window into the state of a scientific community and present highly charged group dynamics that revolve about significant scientific issues, examples from the 1970s and 1980s were subjected to behavioral analysis. Selye's general adaptation syndrome was used to model the forms of coping behavior manifested by investigators targeted for a site visit. A Lewinian approach was taken to analyze the course and outcome of site visit team deliberations. The perspective was that of the NIH official responsible for the operation of the review process.
Assuntos
Revisão por Pares , United States Office of Research Integrity , Adaptação Psicológica , Humanos , Política , Projetos de Pesquisa , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Study of the competition between hallucinogens and tranquilizers at cerebral synapses and on behavior in various species of animals indicates a continuum of effects from protection to dominance of tranquilizer toxicity as the dose of tranquilizer increases. Data on cat and monkey behavior, supplementing that on the rat, show that it is possible to arrive at a tranquilizer dose that can aggravate instead of protect, in accord with the competitive inhibitory nature of the interaction of hallucinogen and tranquilizer.
