As temporal distance from an event increased, individuals both interpreted their own behavior and outcomes as being more due to situational influences and perceived their behavior to have been more similar to the behavior of others. Further, differences in attributions of actors and observers narrowed as temporal distance from the target event…

Describes an experiment designed to verify the notion that many slips of the tongue go undetected and demonstrates that phonemic slips of the tongue are perceived less often than nonphonemic slips of the tongue. Findings also indicate that the latter disturb perception of segments in the rest of the sentence more than the former. (Author/MES)

Reviews theories and empirical findings about self-esteem derived from the work role and its activities. Self-esteem is defined and problems inherent in its measurement are discussed. Theoretical perspectives relating self-esteem to the work role are outlined. Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of high employee self-esteem are presented.…

Examples of pattern cues that are available to profoundly hearing-impaired children are presented through an optical analog, and the usefulness of these cues is shown with regard to vowel and consonant identification, word stress-pattern perception, and distinction among sentences that differ in number of syllables, pattern, intensity, or rate.…

Evaluated comparative effectiveness of an in vivo presentation, a personally written letter, and an impersonal brochure in modifying students' attitudes toward the appropriateness of personal/social, vocational, and college routine concerns for discussion with a counseling psychologist. Results suggest simple presentation of the facts is enough to…

Examines how differences in the verbal and nonverbal behaviors available to persons influence their accuracy in detecting deceptive communication. (JMF)

Undergraduate judges were assigned to groups that differed in information-processing loads. Correct observations decreased and reports of illusory correlation increased as the information-processing load increased. (Author)

Eighteen educable mentally retarded adolescents, 18 chronological age (CA) matched nonretarded adolescents, and 18 mental age (MA) matched nonretarded children stylus-tracked an intermittently disappearing rotary pursuit target with and without auditory feedback. (Author)

Discusses the importance of fostering young adults' awareness of the techniques used to manipulate them, particularly in the marketplace. Briefly reviews 15 short films that can be shown in the classroom and that illustrate various facets of media manipulation. (GC)

A comparison of good and poor decoders revealed no significant differences between groups on multivariate sets of ratings for clients and observers in the areas of nonverbal communication and perceived interviewer effectiveness. (Author/BEF)

Reports on a study of how people create names for individuals characterized by role descriptions. Concludes that context scenarios that involved the individual denoted by a role description elicited names less literally based on the actual role description than did less involving scenarios, and that less literal names appeared to directly…

Five experiments were conducted in order to determine what effect independent movement of an internal element has on the externality effect in young infants, and to consider the value of contrasting explanations of the effect itself. Subjects were 90 infants ranging in age from 28 to 49 days. (MP)

Explores children's understanding of the nature of television characters by assessing their abilities to differentiate between human, animated, and puppet characters. (PD)

Reports on a study of 76 learning disabled children to discover the relationship between the auditory perceptual skills and reading skills. Indicates that the relationship between reading performance and the auditory skills of auditory closure and sound blending are relatively small. (TJ)

The column presents two articles, "Facing the Label" by J. Schulz and "Mainstreaming--A Different Approach" by J. Miltenberger. (SBH)