The objective of this study was to test the cognitive identity of older male and female populations with reference to raw score, component structure, and component score measures of spatial and verbal performance. Women (N=100) and 96 men were administered three verbal and six nonverbal cognitive subtests. (Author)

A survey of 457 college women found no overall association between career orientation and parental identification. However, significant interaction in the association of these variables with self-differentiation from the father, maternal employment and occupation, and maternal sex role ideology. (Author)

The structure of interests can be conceived of as a structure of occupational stimuli embedded within the matrix of affective responses which they produce. Three dimensions of affect are used as the axes of a semantic space within which the occupational stimuli are located according to their unique affective meaning. (Author)

Effects of model status and offender type on imitation of self-reward criteria were examined. Immature-inadequate and gang-oriented offenders viewed videotapes of models who were either stringent or liberal in self-reward criteria and were either staff members or peers. Subjects viewing the liberal model rewarded themselves more. (Author)

Assessed relative effects of therapist empathy and instructed imagination of heirarchy scenes on avoidance behavior reduction. Imagery instructions delivered in a relatively unempathetic fashion produced as much avoidance reduction as imagery instructions delivered in an empathetic manner. (Author)

This paper examines the informal consensus that psychological dysfunction, manifested by suicide and divorce, is unusually high among the occupational group of police officers. Results indicate that those officers studied may, in fact, have lower psychological dysfunction rates than presumed. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate: (1) the effect of the mental alpha state on learning and (2) the effects of indirect suggestion and associative mental activity on learning rare English words. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)

Available from: the Institute of Management Sciences, 146 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903. (JG)

To test reports that the development of programs for producing durable extra-therapy responding lags behind the development of programs for producing initial behavior change, responding was recorded continuously in both the therapy and extra-therapy settings for three autistic males (7 to 11 years old). (Author)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI) of 36 patient suicides were compared with two matching control groups. Female suicides differed significantly from all male groups and from both female control groups. These differentiating patterns emerged from a population of voluntary psychiatric patients and would not necessarily be…

Presents a methodological approach to studying noninstitutionalized psychopaths and presents data on criteria associated with psychopathy. The recruitment procedure involved incorporating the characteristics of psychopathy into an advertisement. The present sample fulfilled the criteria for psychopathy, and the recruitment method used was a…

Primary heroin abusers who remained in a voluntary drug-free treatment program for an average of nine months were carefully matched with not-retained control subjects. Marijuana was used by the retained subjects as a heroin substitute and those who used marijuana were more apt to remain in the treatment program. (Author)

Examines why nursing research should be integrated into the scientific community and lists recent efforts toward integration. Discusses gaining support for nursing research at the federal level, lobbying efforts, and the attitudes of the scientific community and Congress to nurses trying to enter mainstream science. (CT)

The author describes the initial research barriers neuroscientists faced and finally overcame, then summarizes what they discovered about the organization and development of learning/memory mechanisms. Finally, he suggests how the education profession should respond to these research developments. (CT)