Investigates the reflectivity hypothesis by assessing (1) individual differences in preschool children's decentration ability and cognitive style of reflection-impulsivity and (2) the effects of instructing preschool children to adopt a reflective search strategy in their use of intention and consequence information in moral judgments. (Author/RH)

Egeland and Weinberg's contention that form F of the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF) is inappropriate for kindergarten children is examined. Subjects were 85 kindergarten children. (MP)

Repeated measures designs often involve dichotomization of a continuous variable in order to be amenable to the analysis of variance nature of such designs. An alternative to that approach wherein the independent variable is kept continuous is presented. (JKS)

The PM statistical index, which indicates the probability that a person will belong to a particular clinical class, is described. The coefficient is similar to the G index but is easier to compute. An empirical example is presented. (JKS)

The effects of "good" and "poor" peer models on the task performance of 45 chronic schizophrenic males were investigated. The findings revealed that patients who viewed a good peer model did significantly better on a subsequent task then patients who viewed either a peer model or no model. (Editor)

Attempts criterion validation for divergent production tests. Inherent in this attempt is the goal of attaining construct validity for the Divergent Production section of the Structure-Of-Intellect model. (Author/RK)

Investigates whether an increase in anger in response to an attack should be accompanied by an increase in depression, if the opportunity to retaliate against the provoker should reduce both depression and anger, and measures outward hostility of males and females as well as verbal hostility in females. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to assess the cortical concomitants of selective mode-specific attention in subjects differing in the capacity for sustained attentional involvement. (Editor)

Examines whether self-consciousness, a personality disposition, affects self-attributions and attempts to replicate the research findings of Duval and Wicklund (1973) that self-awareness affects self-attributions. (Author/RK)

In the first of two experiments investigating the inhibitory effect of cuing, the taxonomic frequencies of cue words and critical words were manipulated orthogonally. (Editor)

Teachers in all areas often get ideas that are important and worth testing. Few go so far as to do a research study, but here is one who did--and tells how it turned out. (Editor)

Tulving and Thomson's encoding specificity effect was examined as a function of grammatical class and concreteness of the cues. (Editor)

Tests the possibility that observers who are attempting to empathize with an actor will make causal attributions about the actor's behavior which place relatively more emphasis on situational, environmental factors than do observers who are not induced to develop an empathic set. (Author/RK)

Evidence for the hypothesis that the appearance of visually presented words is stored in "literal copy" form is critically evaluated and shown to be inconclusive. An experiment in which students were required to retain information about zero, one, or two visual properties of words is reported. (Editor)

Explores both paranoid and non-paranoid political discourse including the nature of the evidence and the extent to which such evidence is distorted. Contends that study results affirm the value of the Hofstadter evidence-inference dichotomy. (MH)