Examines illustrator-type gestures that are directly tied to speech in terms of their encoding and decoding functions, and suggests some variables bearing on these functions. (JMF)

In the article the author refutes J. Fletcher and P. Satz's analysis of the etiology of reading disability on logical, theoretical, and empirical grounds. (Author/PHR)

In the rejoinder the authors describe the methodological and interpretive factors in the Vellutino et al, experiments which limited the degree to which the studies refuted perceptual deficit hypotheses of reading disability. Note: for more of the interchange see EC 114 687-688. (Author/PHR)

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)

Clark's Semantic Feature Acquisition theory of semantic development is reviewed and evaluated against the recent experimental literature with special reference to the acquisition of English antonyms. (Author/MP)

Testing of physical education majors supports hypotheses that: (1) groups having the greatest number of gains in performance of a motor task develop a more positive attitude toward the task, and (2) groups having the greatest number of performance gains in successive trials will show the greatest change in already formed attitudes. (MB)

Investigates the relationship between the annual variations in United States suicide rates during the years 1966 to 1973 and the concomitant annual variations in the I-E scores obtained by United States college students. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this research was to see which specific techniques Albert Ellis, the founder of the school of therapy known as Rational Emotive Therapy, uses during an initial therapy session and also to see what percentage of time each technique was utilized. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between sex guilt and drug preferences. Seventy polydrug users completed a drug preference inventory and the Mosher Forced-Choice Sex Guilt Subscale. Results indicated that individuals who prefer sedatives are higher in sex guilt than either individuals who prefer stimulants or individuals with no definite…

Attempts to demonstrate that depressed individuals, as compared with nondepressed, exhibit characteristic patterns of response to feedback that may reflect biases in their evaluations and interpretations of self, situation, and the future. (Author/RK)

A series of experiments demonstrate that (a) temporal and spatial structures may be coded independently of one another, (b) linguistic materials lead to temporal superiority whereas pictorial forms give rise to temporal/spatial equality, (c) imposed encoding strategies do not influence the above patterns, and (d) imaginal processing does not…

The absolute normal scores test is described as a test for the symmetry of a distribution of scores about a location parameter. The test is compared to the sign test and the Wilcoxon test as an alternative to the "t"-test. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the resolution of inconsistent attitude communications by schizophrenic patients as compared to a matched group of normal subjects. Twelve inconsistent messages served as the experimental stimuli. Some general guidelines for the practicing therapist and implications for double-bind theory are discussed. (Editor/RK)

Tests Wolpe's prediction that autonomic sexual and anxiety arousal states are mutually inhibitory. Results suggest that the way these states interact with each other may depend on the context in which subjects perceive the stimuli that generate these respective arousal states. (Editor/RK)

Names of cities were shock associated and then embedded in material presented to the nonattended channel in a dichotic listening and shadowing situation. A test for conditioning followed the dichotic listening task. Comparisons are made with other studies of galvanic skin responses to unattended words. (Editor/RK)