Examines children's readers to find out whether Riesman, Glazer, Denney, and William F. Whyte's descriptions of changes in the American character are represented in the models offered to school children. Compares the models used in the early McGuffey Readers with contemporary readers. (Editor/RK)

An attempt was made to delineate the degree to which distortions in the perception of depression were related to the severity level of the patient's depression and the degree to which denial was utilized as a coping mechanism. (Author)

Attempts to discover if there was a significant relationship between the clothing behavior of two different groups of college males (identified as conservative dressers and hippie dressers) and their social-political beliefs. (Author/RK)

Focuses on selecting learning experiencing which allow students direct involvement in the discussion of issues most important to them. Reports research findings from a 1971 study of marital role expectations of high school students in a large Alberta city and outlines teaching strategies which utilize this data. (Author/RK)

Investigates the prediction that the usual superiority of pictures over words for repetitions of the same items would disappear for items that were different instances of repeated categories. (Author/RK)

Tests whether children's learnings in one of the social sciences, geography, are as hypothesized, hierarchically dependent; that is, whether learning of each in a series of central, analytic processes in one of the social sciences facilitates, through positive transfer, the learning of each succeeding higher-order capability in the field.…

This research was designed to measure how students enrolled in introductory marketing courses perceived mass section multimedia lecture classes in comparison with other commonly utilized teaching formats. (Author/RK)

Attempts to define the relationships between four measures of recall in a two-recall task, namely (a) initial short-term recall (STR), (b) unconditional final free recall (FFR), (c) final free recall conditionalized on an initial successful recall (FFR/STR), and (d) final free recall conditionalized on an unsuccessful recall (FFR/STR). (Author/RK)

Three experiments were conducted in order to assess the validity of the novel-stimulus hypothesis as an explanation for why people who are physically different (i.e., novel) are avoided. (Editor)

Discusses the application of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample tests, as an alternative to the Chi-square test, for survey research problems in business education and includes a computer program written for the convenience of researchers. The two-sample test is recommended for differentiating independent distributions. (MF)

Two experiments were carried out in order to test the effects of task sequence on the speed of rule learning and problem solving. Experiment I involved numerical rule-learning tasks and Experiment II tested the effect of task difficulty and task precedence using problem-solving tasks. (Editor/RK)

Influence via threats was investigated in correspondent relationships (characterized by commonality of interest) and in noncorrespondent relationships (characterized by conflict of interest). The results of this research point to the existence of two qualitatively different processes of influence. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the interaction between a model's head turn and an observer's perception of being looked at, as a function of the model's visible eye. (Author/RK)

The possibility that the so-called physical attractiveness stereotype may contain a "kernel of truth" was investigated in a study where college students interacted with opposite sex partners whom they could not see. (Editor)