High-, average-, and low-achieving boys and girls in the first and third grades were compared on their expectations for success prior to an anagrams task; their subsequent perceptions of the cause of failure on the task; and their expectations for future success. Findings are discussed. (Author/GK)

The influence of frequency of occurrence of a visual stimulus on encoding processes is investigated, to discover what mechanisms allow cognitive processes to modify perceptual processes. Six experiments are described and the results are discussed. (MH)

The extent to which perceptions of present and future status vary as a function of sex and academic status in low-income Blacks was investigated. The results indicate that, regardless of academic status, males possess higher expectations than females. (Author/RLV)

Assessed effects on initial expectancies of whether counseling was time-limited and of interaction of time limits with chronicity of the client's problem. Subjects in the chronic problem condition had the most negative expectancies. Time limits did not affect expectancies for client activity and responsibility and for counselor activity.…

Those evaluating teacher behavior were highly influenced by verbal remarks that led them to expect either excellent or poor performance. (Editor)

Describes a study which sought to determine whether writing apprehension, and behaviors associated with it, served as determinants of teacher judgments and which identified some expectations, perceptions and evaluations held by teachers of students who vary in apprehension. (DD)

Reinterpretation of much of the teacher expectancy research indicates the existence of competing linkages (current student achievement influences teacher behavior and teacher expectancy) rather than expectancy linkages (teacher expectancy influences student achievement). (Author/RC)

The effects of demand characteristics on assertive behavior of unassertive undergraduates was investigated and found to increase the amount of assertiveness. It was proposed that high and low role-playing situations be used to diagnose inadequate learning of assertion skills, as opposed to factors inhibiting assertive performance. (NG)

Explores empirically the effect of expected salary level at the time of entry into an enterprise, and the extent to which these expectations are met over the course of employment, upon women's turnover behavior. Also determines the utility of biodemographic data derived at the time of entry into an enterprise for possibly predicting women's…

Compares the behavior of psychiatric patients in hospital and nonhospital settings. (Author/RK)

When a person acts bizarre, out of role, or in other extreme ways, the perceiver often attributes to that person an extreme disposition, and the attribution is made with confidence. Two experiments were conducted to investigate a modification of this analysis of attribution (Jones & Davis, 1965). (Author/RK)

Data from a national survey with 3,963 respondents indicate that genuine research assistantship experience is positively related to subsequent research involvement and productivity. Variables identifying productive and nonproductive respondents are reported, and recommendations are offered for training educational researchers. (Author/LBH)

Explores the synergistic relationship between the construction of identities and teaching practices of those using feminist teaching in higher education classrooms, proposing that teachers constructing their identities are strongly influenced by the expectations of other participants in the educational process. Examines how attention to student…

Studied whether African American male college student athletes unrealistically focus their career goals on professional athletics, using a sample of 702 male students from 42 colleges. Only 5% had goal discrepant expectations, and most were underclassmen. Institutional characteristics were stronger predictors of goal discrepancy than were personal…