Indicates that a feeling of control over the environment affects the subject's response to aversive stimuli. This finding helps to reconcile those of other experimenters in the area. (RW)

Shows a relationship between the proximity of two people and their degree of face-to-face orientation and discussed the results with regard to Argyle and Dean's idea of intimacy equilibrium. (RW)

Offers evidence that experimental results may be distorted by subject nonnaivety and notes the need to eliminate such contamination, as well as means of assuring subject naivety. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Study resulting in the conclusion that the semantic relationships between words in the bilingual's languages influence tasks involving secondary memory, whereas no interlingual interference occurs in a second learning situation depending mostly upon primary memory. (Author/FWB)

Presents research patterned on two earlier studies by the Crandalls 1963, 1964 on the effects of praise, criticism, and nonreaction on 10-year-old children involved in a marble-dropping task. The subjects tended to increase in performance and decrease in achievement expectancy when criticized. Table, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)