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)

Reports a series of studies that investigated the role of parafoveal vision in reading by using the Stroop phenomenon. Supports the "peripheral search guidance" process of Hochberg's model of reading, and provides evidence of processing variations across retinal location. (RL)

This study was designed to explore the sensitivity of children to orthographic structure, particularly across two grade levels and between two levels of reading ability within each grade. (HOD)

The article describes a program for developing visual perception in mentally handicapped students. The approach involves a scheme for grading visual matching tasks in order of difficulty. (SBH)

Additional investigation is required to determine how children can be aided in developing (1) a more mature perception of the action on television and (2) the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. (MM)

Sixty monosyllabic, disyllabic, and trisyllabic words were recorded and presented at different times through earphones and vibrators to 20 normal adults and 20 profoundly hearing impaired children (ages 8 to 15 years) to evaluate perception of number of syllables. Vibratory perception by profoundly hearing impaired and normal Ss and auditory…