The author briefly characterizes two ways to confirm the empirical part of educational theories: the hypothetico-deductive method and the Bayesian method. It is argued that the Bayesian approach can be justified. (JMK)

An adjusted study program can provide relief to both problem students and their teachers. This article tells how, at minimal cost, improvement can be realized in student attitudes and achievement. (Editor)

It was hypothesized that depressed patients who were identified as restrained on the basis of Herman and Polivy's (1975) restraint scale would report having gained weight in conjunction with their depression, whereas unrestrained patients would report weight loss. (Author)

This study was designed to test the effects of both interaction distance and the quality of the interaction upon attraction. The implications of this research for studies concerning crowding is discussed, as are possible explanatory mechanisms. (Editor/RK)

Examines two specific hypotheses on the dynamics of persuasion: first, whether the manipulation of arguments presented to support an advocated opinion should influence the effectiveness of an expert source more than an attractive source, and second, audience reaction toward expert versus attractive sources when considering a number of arguments…

McCauley, Stitt, Woods and Lipton's finding that groups were more conservative than individuals when betting at a race track has been criticized on statistical and methodological grounds. This study evaluates their research and sustains their general results and conclusions. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to demonstrate that the ethnographic hypothesis is both culturally relevant and empirically grounded. It is noted that any hypothesis which lacks these attributes is inappropriate for cross cultural research. (Author/AM)

Hypothesizes that psychologists would give higher IQ estimates (1) to black and to Mexican-American children than to white children; (2) to lower-class than to middle-class children; and (3) to profiles with much scatter than to profiles with limited scatter. (Author/RK)

This study proposed to formulate an instrument to help the adolescent make a self-evaluation, and to acquire some self-understanding. (Author)

Study pits two competing hypotheses, demand characteristics hypothesis and subject commitment hypothesis, against one another in a laboratory context by manipulating subjects' anonymity. (CB)

Plato's rationale for his ideas on teaching and the problems he confronted in convincing other educational leaders of the validity of his beliefs are discussed. (CK)

Study suggests that one possible way to begin to increase the attractiveness of secondary schools is to open" the climate. (Authors)

The hypothesis that the correlation of measures on the same characteristic at two points in time will approach unity when the relevant, intervening environment is added to the prediction equation is tested on a sample of high school physics students. (Author/AG)