Discusses how to stop a spinning object (such as rotating fan blades) by humming and the perception of curious blue arcs around a light. Background information, relevant research, and activities related to these two topics are provided. (JN)

This article relates the psychological dynamics of "peak experiences" to two concepts, intentionality and paradoxical intention, within the philosophical orientation of phenomenology. A review of early philosophical theories of self (Kant and Hume) is presented and compared with the experiential emphasis found in the phenomenology of Husserl.…

Respondents (N=532) over a wide age range rated their own lives and an "average person's life" at each of eight age intervals. Ratings varied significantly by age of target and of respondent and were increasingly differentiated as a function of both the age level being evaluated and the respondent's age. (Author)

Letter recognition errors may be the result of children going through normal states of development. (Author)

Discusses a controlled experiment in which right and left hemisphere activity determines selected emotional responses to visual stimuli. Findings suggest that each hemisphere has a distinct emotional response. Both hemispheres contribute to the individual's perception of the world. (EB)

This study contributes to the research on the Application of Cognitive Functions Scale (ACFS) (C. Lidz and R. Jepsen, 2001), a new dynamic assessment approach for young children. Dynamic assessment is an assessment tool that follows a test-intervention-retest model, using the teaching as part of the assessment. The ACFS assesses the child's…

If counseling and guidance professionals are to improve the mental health of individuals and society, then they must carefully examine the relationship between mental health and technology. Healthy management of technological tools may be one of the most critical competencies a counseling professional can model and teach. The purpose of this…

This paper discusses a study that was conducted in order to add to the body of literature that investigates the manner in which feminist psychology is accepted among education graduate students. Graduate students (N=69) at a large public mid-western university were recruited and randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups. Participants were…

This study had two purposes: first, to determine whether there exists a relationship between sex, family structure, power structure in the family of orientation, or social class and the kind of marriage role expectations of adolescents and to determine if those expectations are equalitarian. (Author/RK)

A study of 80 randomly selected counselors employed by the counseling staff of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation investigated the relationship of job satisfaction to self-concept and the relationship of counselor's perceptions of actual and ideal work functions. (EA)

This study explores the relationship between empathy (measured by Hogan's empathy scale) and psychological differentiation (measured by the Embedded Figures Test). When 32 male undergraduate volunteers completed both tests, it was found that highly empathetic S's tended to be field independent. Both emphathetic and field independent persons are…

We stand by our original conclusion that for a developmental analysis, upright orientation should not be inferred from judged upside down orientation with a binary vertical method. We believe that our more general procedures are more appropriate for research on orientation and form perception. (Author)

Investigated adolescent males' recognition of evaluative words spoken near threshold by male and female voices. Closed-style subjects (theoretically characterized by social withdrawal and perceptual blocking) recognized fewer female-spoken (relative to male-spoken) words; this finding is consistent with adaptive-style theory. (DP)