Reprints from: Thomas J. Cottle, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

Recommends that books be approached as objects and with an appreciation of their physicality. Suggests that in books different kinds of time exist synchronously with the reader traversing the various time zones. Lists three readings dealing with books as objects and as related to time and identification. (AEA)

The claim by Bandura that the Rorschach space response is an artifact of longer blot exposure is questioned because of failure to account for the relationship between productivity and space response rates. Results of this study indicate that no significant temporal effect operates on space response rate. (Author/BEF)

The relationship between time estimation and hyperactivity was studied with 135 normal, 6 hyperactive, and 6 mentally retarded boys (ages 7 to 17 years). It was found that only the retarded Ss showed significant differences between elapsed and estimated times, suggesting that time estimation is not clinically useful for identifying hyperactive…

Advances a complexity account that suggests that there are increased processing-capacity and temporal demands associated with formulating and maintaining more complex message representations. Reports on four studies of this complexity account. Suggests that results of these studies provide considerable support for the complexity hypothesis. (RS)

Maintains that rhetoric is about the place of human action in the temporal continuum. Identifies critical elements of temporal organization for rhetorical scholars and investigates their potential as argument structures. Introduces a time-vocabulary model as a powerful and pragmatic tool for locating intratextual patterns of temporality. (SR)

Discusses such errors in transcribing real time in spoken discourse as inconsistent use of transcriptional conventions; use of transcriptional symbols with multiple meanings; measurement problems; some cross-purposes of real-time transcription; neglect of time between onset and offset of speech and silence transcription; and transcriptions that…

Discusses time references in Russian- and English-speaking cultures by means of Russian translation variants of works by twentieth-century English-language writers. Suggests the different attitudes toward time as manifested by these two distinct cultures. (HB)

Results from 2 studies involving 52 and 57 adults, respectively, suggest that, when an intertemporal trade-off is embedded in 2 alternative sequences of outcomes, the psychological perspective (frame) shifts and individuals become more farsighted, often wishing to postpone the better outcome to the end. Implications for studying intertemporal…

Thoms and Greenberger report how organizational leaders (n=111) who participated in vision training were compared to 50 who received other management training. The first group's visioning ability increased; their future time perspective and positivism were correlated with their visioning ability. Meindl offers a critique of Thoms's and…

Reviews the role of exploratory data analysis (EDA) for spatial data mining and presents a case study addressing environmental risk assessments in New York State to illustrate the feasibility and usability of augmenting seriation for spatial data analysis. Describes augmentation with multimedia tools to understand relationships among spatial,…

In a study of the ability to reconstruct the times of past events, 86 children from 4 to 13 years recalled the times of 2 in-class demonstrations that had occurred 3 months earlier and judged the times of hypothetical events. Many of the abilities needed to reconstruct the times of events were present by 6 years, including the capacity to…

The essay makes an attempt to trace the influences that external political and socioeconomic factors like World Wars I, II and Great Depression had on higher education in the U.S. Higher education - autonomous and self - contained system - proved to be one of the center points of main societal developments, at the same time being significantly…

In this paper, we argue against the over-simplistic accusation that the media "dumb down" the study of history. Instead, we critically examine the contemporary presentation of history on British television within a framework of analysis of commodification and consumption. We argue that central to the debate is the idea that whilst…

This study investigated young children's reports of when learning occurred. A total of 96 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds were recruited from suburban preschools and elementary schools. The children learned an animal fact and a body movement. A week later, children learned another animal fact and another body movement and then answered questions about…