The Boston Globe's obituary did give credit to the story
as having come from the Los Angeles Times. (Don't know
whether Berkeley did...)
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
Well, Beth, curiosity (i.e., procrastination!) got the better of me. I checked all 3 articles with my plagiarism software and here is what I have. The Boston piece was written by the same author as the piece from the LA Times and seems to be an excerpt of that LA Times article. In addition to the section I had noted earlier from the Boston obit, the LA Times obit had one additional section worth showing that seems to have been derived from the Berkeley piece (see below).
By the way, Bill Scott was correct in his suspicion that the Bekeley item was the first one to come out.
I do not believe, as Scott pointed out, that these press releases can be copied and pasted "as one would see fit without attribution". I guess this would be easy to determine. Even if they were, I doubt that major papers would do so. At any rate, it would be interesting to canvass all of the obits of Lazarus in major papers and see how much borrowing occurs. Then, again, I am not familiar with the specific rules by which journalists play and so do not really know how serious any instances of borrowing would be. I cannot imagine, however, that the rules in the field of journalism would be substantially different than those in most disciplines.
Anyhow, maybe I should go back to grading. ;-)
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From the University of California at Berkely:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html
"In another classic study, Lazarus documented the unsuspected benefits of the coping process. He demonstrated experimentally that patients who engage in forms of denial (for example, refusing to believe that a serious medical problem exists or to accept that the problem is as severe as it, in fact, is) recover better and more quickly from surgery than patients who do not engage in such denial. Lazarus thus came to believe, contrary to orthodox wisdom, that under certain conditions, false beliefs can have very beneficial consequences to one's health and well-being."
From the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-lazarus8dec08.story?null
"Lazarus also discovered that a little denial could go a long way. In one study, he demonstrated that patients who engage in forms of denial -- refusing to believe that a serious medical problem exists or refusing to accept that it is as bad as it seems -- recover better and more quickly from surgery than other patients."
"He thus came to believe that false beliefs can sometimes have very beneficial consequences for one's health and well-being, ...."
> Given that I am in the process of reading student
> papers, I must be on "plagiarism-detection mode".
> Check this out:
>
> From the Boston Globe:
> http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/342/obituaries/Richard_Lazarus_80+.shtml
>
> "Dr. Lazarus wrote 13 books, including ''Emotion and
> Adaptation,'' which explained that a single response,
> such as a smile, can be used for different emotions and
> that different responses, such as retaliation and
> passive aggressiveness, can be used in service of the
> same emotion."
>
> From the University of California at Berkely:
> http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/12/04_lazarus.html
>
> "He also showed how appraisal explains the meaning of a
> person's emotional behavior; how a single response,
> like a smile, can be in the service of many different
> emotions; and how totally different responses, like
> retaliation or passive aggressiveness, can be in the
> service of the same emotion."
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