This study investigates the effects of background music in a dramatic television presentation on university students' perception and retention of the presentation's cognitive content. (Author)

The anthropologist's role in using cable television as a tool of applied anthropology in a new town was examined. The project's purpose was to give a group of people a new usage for a communications medium. (Author/NQ)

Authors examines the limits of selective attention during early stages of information processing. (Author/RK)

A tachistoscopic recognition task was administered to 36 retarded readers and 36 normal readers aged 6.5 to 7.5 yr. The purpose was to determine whether the retarded readers' visual-perceptual deficit was a function of speed of exposure and/or difficulty of discriminating alternatives on response cards. (Editor)

Recently, Nilsson (1975) challenged Watkins's conclusion that the modality effect is a post-categorical phenomenon. In this brief reply the authors argued that Nilsson's findings are not only consistent with the postcategorical interpretation but also inconsistent with the precategorical interpretation. (Author/RK)

Authors questioned whether the familiarity effect in the processing of words is a "perceptual" phenomenon or whether it is produced by visual rather than verbal mechanisms. (Author/RK)

Article provided a brief look at the history and development of sex roles in an attempt to understand how that role definition developed and why it is only now being seriously challenged. (Author/RK)

Male and female counselors at three levels of training/experience conducted an initial interview with a female confederate client. Videotapes of these interviews were viewed by 120 undergraduate males and females who rated the counselors' expertness, indicated counselor behaviors that contributed to their judgments, and rated their willingness to…

The author reexamined the relationship between sex and empathy using graduate students as subjects. The results show that, contrary to Olesker and Balter's findings, for the subjects there was no significant difference in empathic ability whether judging members of the same or the opposite sex. (Author/SE)

The importance of awareness of the pictorial surface and point of observation was investigated in children and adults. The effect of station point was found to interact with pictorial surface and age, thus suggesting the development of a mechanism of compensation for the perspective distortion of oblique view. (JMB)

Identifies some competencies and defines roles important to the successful operation of middle-management personnel in colleges and universities, specifically, the roles of deans and department or division chairs. (Author)

Reports on a classroom activity that emphasizes to journalism students the importance of good observational skills and of getting accurate information firsthand. (RL)

Questionnaires asking principals, teachers, and superintendents to rank-order items dealing with the principal's actual and ideal role were sent to 105 school jurisdictions in Ontario, Canada. Findings indicated teachers and superintendents view the principal's role differently, while the principal view of his role is most like that of the…