Australasian Arachnology, Number 07, January 1982

Number 7 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 05, April 1981

Number 5 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 02, May 1980

Number 2 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 09, July/August 1982

It is with great sadness and shock that I (editor) note the tragic death of Vincenzo Roberto Salanitri, on May 15, 1982, known to his friends as Vince. Vince, 38, was a very capable preparator at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, where he had made many friends over the past 2 years. Previously from Melbourne, Vince was enrolled in an M.Sc. on the population dynamics of the mygalomorph spider genus Stanwellia. Judged by some of his comments, Vince's findings were very provocative to some established ideas. It is hoped that his uncompleted thesis will, if possible, be published

Australasian Arachnology, Number 06, August 1981

Number 6 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 04, February 1981

Number 4 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 01, November 1979

Number 1 of Australasian Arachnology contains news and notes from the Australasian Arachnological Society. At present the aim of this society is that of other arachnological societies: to promote the study of arachnids, in our case especially Australasian arachnids. In time this aim may become more refined. The newsletter is intended as a means of communication between arachnologists-amateurs and professionals

Australasian Arachnology, Number 08, April 1982

Newsletter No. 8 contains miscellaneous notes and news, as well as articles about "The bite of Hexathele sp.", "Tetragonophthalma (Pisauridae) and its nursery web" and "Spider books galore (part II).

A revision of the American spiders of the family Microstigmatidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2707

20 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 20)."The tribal grouping Microstigmateae Roewer is removed from the Dipluridae and elevated to familial rank. The subfamily Pseudonemesiinae Caporiacco is transferred from the Ctenizidae to the Microstigmatidae. The family is suggested to be the sister group of the Mecicobothriidae plus Hexalethidae and Dipluridae. The male of the Venezuelan species Pseudonemesia parva Caporiacco is descibed for the first time, and a new species, P. kochalkai, is described from Colombia. A genus (Ministigmata) described for a new species (M. minuta) from Brazil is hypothesized to be more closely related to the South African genus Microstigmata than to Pseudonemesia"--P. [1]

Vulnerability to depression is associated with a failure to acquire implicit social appraisals

Major depressive disorder is frequently associated with disrupted relationships with spouses, partners, family and peers. These problems can precipitate the onset of clinical illness, influence severity and the prospects for treatment and recovery. Here, we investigated whether individuals who have recovered from depression use interpersonal signals to form favourable appraisals of others as social partners. Twenty recovered-depressed adults (with at least two adult episodes of major depressive disorder but euthymic and medication-free for six months) and twenty three healthy, never-depressed adults completed a reaction time task in which the gaze direction of some faces reliably cued the location a target (valid faces), whereas the gaze direction of other faces cued the opposite spatial location (invalid faces). None of the participants were aware of this contingency. Following this task, participants judged the trustworthiness of the faces. Both the recovered-depressed and healthy never-depressed participants were significantly faster to categorise targets following valid compared with invalid gaze cueing faces. Whereas the healthy never-depressed participants judged the valid faces to be significantly more trustworthy than the invalid faces; this implicit social appraisal was absent in the recovered-depressed participants. Individuals who have recovered from major depressive disorder are able to respond appropriately to joint attention with other people but appear to not use joint attention to form implicit trust appraisals of others as potential social partners