A field experiment in peer tutoring was conducted with college students to test a theoretical model that attached greater desirability to be the tutor than the tutee and to be in an equitable (status congruent) rather than inequitable relationship. Results supported the model. (Author/JKS)

An educator describes a syndrome affecting professionals involved with autistic children. (CL)

Active touch, passive touch with a moving object, and passive touch with a still object were examined developmentally with 192 subjects in first, third, and fifth grades and college. (Author/JMB)

Using data from college undergraduate classes, the authors evaluate college classrooms and the role performances of students from a social organization perspective. (JR)

College teachers, students, and noncollege adults participated in a study in which they were asked to predict the behavior of college students given an absurdly easy quiz in a sociology class. The study examines the perceptions of student roles in the classroom. (Author/JR)

Survey results concerning the role of university supervisors as perceived by student teachers, classroom supervisors, and principals of schools serving the student teachers reflected positively on present program administration, on the role of the supervisor student teaching programs, and the continuation of the supervisory position. (MB)

The auditory assembly abilities of 30 stuttering and 30 nonstuttering children (all in grades 1-4) were investigated. (Author/SBH)

Two experiments explored whether stimulus familiarity influences prerecognition processing to generate differences in the apparent duration of tachistoscopic flashes. Subjects were 4- and 5-year-old children and adults. (MS)

Attempts to replicate Gogel's (1972) observations with points of light and examines in addition whether the same results would be obtained if the binocularly nearer object was made visually more massive than the farther object and if the residual oculomotor cues were varied to produce different values of the reference distance. (Author/RK)

Provides a concise review of research and literature on the relationship between sex differences and art preference. (Editor)

A survey of practicing school psychologists in Nebraska was conducted to gather facts and opinions. Results indicate consultation was considered the most important function in both the hypothetical ideal situation and on the job, though a significantly greater amount of time was reported spent in assessment. (Author)

Analysis of reader response to fictional characters defined four factors: evaluation, dynamism, sex appeal, and temperament. (KS)

Two studies: (1) assessed the infant's ability to perceive differences between two-dimensional and three-dimensional stimuli; and (2) tested the infants' ability to transfer responses across dimensions. (Author/SB)

Examined length of fixation time responses of neonates to pairs of red, blue, and green acetate stimuli. (Author)

This study investigated the development of understanding of animate and inanimate items in 52 children between 4 and 7 years of age. (Author/JMB)