The paper evaluates the empirical and theoretical basis upon which several recent studies reject the hypothesis of a visual-perceptual deficit in reading disabilities. (Author)

The results of this study indicate that tobacco smoking may have a deleterious effect on the learning process. Those Ss who smoked in excess of 12 cigarettes per day did significantly less well, as a group, than nonsmokers and light smokers on three of the four learning tests. (Editor)

Compares the psychological development of bishops with priests, explores connections between psychological development and demographic variables as these relate to bishops, and summarizes clinical impressions based on the responses of the bishops to the Loyola Sentence Completion Blank for Clergymen (LSCBC). (Author/RK)

Compares highly educated professional blacks with blacks whose education and occupational skills are more representative of blacks-in-general to see whether the former have distinctive personality characteristics compatible with marginality. (Author/RK)

Relations among test anxiety, performance on a complex task, and task behavior were investigated within a simulated teaching situation. It was predicted that test anxiety would relate negatively to performance accuracy and level of active task involvement. (Editor)

Investigates sex-role stereotyping in social service organizations. These organizations are traditionally female-dominated work cultures in which women have shared leadership roles with men. (Author/RK)

The present research examined relationships between physical distance, frequency offace-to-face contacts, and the probability that individuals would be chosen as friends or enemies. (Editor)

Two experiments compared three alternative hypotheses concerning differences in attraction to a person across interaction settings: a "compartmentalization" hypothesis, an "intimacy dominance" hypothesis, and an "intimacy threshold" hypothesis were evaluated. (Editor/RK)

This study examines eight hypotheses concerning personality and parental determinants of support and opposition to the Women's Liberation Movement. These cognitive, motivational, and parental variables are interpreted in relation to the differing dispositions of each group toward the issues raised by the women's movement. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the effects of situational constraint and type of causal explanation on the degree to which described behavior would be perceived as evidencing "mental illness" and the degree to which it would lead to social rejection. (Editor/RK)

Reviews the eye-movement paradigm and refers to recent experiments applying the paradigm to issues of spoken word recognition (e.g., lexical competitor effects), syntactic processing, reference resolution, focus, as well as issues in cross-modality integration that are central to evaluating the modularity hypothesis. (Seven references) (Author/CK)

Synthesized empirical findings on job satisfaction from the first 26 volumes of "Educational Administration Quarterly." Discovered 330 job satisfaction research hypotheses and 613 relational effect sizes. Performed meta-analyses for six hypotheses, finding the largest mean effect sizes for relationships between overall job satisfaction…

Summarizes a study that manipulated the race and sex of teacher applicants and organizational representatives to produce demographically similar and dissimilar pairings. Varied recruitment messages to reflect different groupings of homogeneous attributes related to economic incentives, work environment, or work itself. Racially similar pairings…

Provides evidence from a small northern U.S. city for Canadian raising, a Canadian phenomenon that heightens the onset of diphthongs in /ai/ and /au/ relative to the low central onset in neighboring dialects. Findings suggest that the Canadian diphthong varieties may not be conforming to the U.S. norm, but instead that the two varieties are…

Describes how a teacher used the "hypothesis-test" approach in elementary and junior high classrooms, teaching alone or team teaching, to be proactive about students needs instead of reactive to their disruptions or silence, to help kids who need it before they cry out, and to introduce them to the sweet taste of success before they encounter…