Critiques the few scholarly reports found on interventions to help dual-earner couples share domestic labor and to increase fathers' temporal involvement in child care. Presents model of forces both constraining and driving equitable participation in domestic labor. Recommends model as basis on which to design, implement, and evaluate family life…

This examination of the auditory perceptual abilities of 40 children, ages 4-10, and 10 adults found significant differences between the performances of the 4- to 8-year olds and of the adults. Acquisition of adultlike duration discrimination performance was demonstrated between the ages of 8 and 10 years. (Author/JDD)

Thirty-four children (ages 8-10) participated in an activity, and their memory of it was tested 2 weeks later in a law school's mock courtroom or in the children's school. Children questioned at court showed impaired memory performance and increased stress levels. Children's perceptions of courtroom stress were negatively correlated with…

A mechanism of perceptual analysis by which infants derive meaning from perceptual activity is described. Infants use this mechanism to redescribe perceptual information into image and schematic format. Image schemas enable preverbal thought and provide a foundation for language acquisition. (SLD)

Three experiments tested four- to seven-year olds' ability to understand and reconcile message-desire discrepant stories. The findings suggest that young children can refrain from a performative response and, as a consequence, attend to literal meaning under some conditions when evaluating utterances. (MDM)

The major facts of motion perception are summarized, and three major problems regarding motion perception for moving objects, stable environments, and locomotion in a stable environment are elaborated. A hierarchy of motion types is presented. Evidence that the stimulus for motion is relational is considered. (SLD)

Placing psychology in a biological and physical context, James J. Gibson performed prophetic work on visual motion, inspiring more recent studies on higher order aspects of motion encoding. Although not always fully acknowledged, Gibson's work is very important to the development of perceptual psychology. (SLD)

This reprinted 1970 article examines the role of the university research administrator and finds that the role involves paradoxes between controller and entrepreneur, master and slave, censor and publicist, and traditionalist and innovator. (DB)

Provides overview of the vital role a sound admission program plays in helping an institution fulfill its mission. Notes that, in the future, admission directors will need to implement the concept of strategic planning, and that strategic decision making will be needed in the future student recruitment environment. (NB)

This study evaluated performance of blind (n=17) and sighted adults on a haptic numerosity task of braille symbols in which symbol size was varied. Although blind subjects performed better than seeing subjects, the rate of learning and patterns of errors were similar, except that blind subjects did better with standard than with enlarged symbols.…

Describes 4 experiments examining 10-month-old infants' causal event perception. Results from all experiments indicated that infants perceived causality of simple events by associating a specific agent with a causal action. These results provide more support for an information-processing view of causal perception than for a view that explains…

This study of 14 children (ages 5-9) with a history of otitis media with effusion found that subjects had significantly reduced masking-level differences (MLD) compared to controls. Results suggest that the reduction in MLD may be related to abnormal brainstem processing. (Author/JDD)

Steps aside from conventional ideas about diagrams to examine how they work. Brings to bear ideas from a perceptual psychologist, a communication theorist, and a philosopher. Introduces the papers in this special issue as diagrams for worldmaking. (SR)

Physical aspects of listening skills are described, including speech rate, syllable tone, word-word separation vs. joining, listening for "focus," word clues per message, and intonation. (LB)

Three experiments with young children and adults were performed to examine the development of frequency selectivity and to attempt to separate peripheral versus central contributions to frequency selectivity. Results suggested that the shallow notched-noise, fixed-masker-level functions of four-year-old children are probably a result of poor…