Response error refers to the tendency to respond to items based on the perceived social desirability or undesirability of given responses. Response error can be particularly problematic when all or most of the items on a measure are extremely attractive or unattractive. The present paper proposes a method of (a) distinguishing among preferences…

This study investigated the effects on black and white children of observing black and white models of the interaction of the variables with apparent reward magnitude. (Author)

The present investigation examines the effects of three different quadratic cue-criterion function forms upon single-cue learning. (Author)

The present experiments, conducted on two different populations of bilinguals, were designed to differentiate between two positions. Specifically, a demonstration of negative transfer could be interpreted as support for some form of interdependence of storage. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of comparison levels (standards of achievement), test anxiety, and ongoing self-reported affect to performance on a classroom type complex verbal learning task. (Author)

Tests were made of the effects of conceptual associations among words, a type of associative relationship not previously manipulated, on verbal discrimination learning. (Editor)

This paper sets out to give some empirical findings on the distributions of over- and under-achievement in reading in order to order to provide a factual base from which conceptual arguments may start. (Author)

This paper had three aims: 1, to make more widely known two methods of assessing recognition, one based on ranking and the other on rating, 2, to describe three experiments comparing the two methods, and 3, to give a preliminary account of the results of some theoretical calculations. (Author/RK)

Position effects in multiple-trial free recall were examined for subjects who learned three successive lists under one of two instructional conditions. (Editor)

The present experiment sought to investigate the hypothesis that exposure to nonhostile humor would be highly effective in reducing the level of aggression subsequently evidenced by angry individuals. (Author/RK)

Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of four levels of videotape training (the independent variable) on a specific class of teacher behaviors (the dependent variable). (Author)

Authors presented a vector algebra approach to predicting excellence in college teachers at any educational level. (Author/RK)

Presented at "Translation 73," a conference on the present state of literary translation, Columbia University, March 30, 1973. (DD)

Current research in management science is yielding new planning methodology more consonant with the presently shifting world view than past fragmented efforts have been. (Author)