This research paper examines the portrayal of 35 librarians depicted in 24 adult mystery novels copyrighted between 1980 and 1990. Its main objective is to gauge how closely the portrayals of the librarians resemble or differ from the stereotype denounced in professional writings. In general, the librarians in these stories are fairly young and…

This theme issue features five articles profiling Indiana University faculty whose work on various campuses continues to broaden and advance knowledge about cognitive science. The articles in the journal are: "A Matter of Time" (Karen Grooms) which discusses the work of Robert F. Port; "Perceiving as a Complex System" (Tom…

The current uniform content of college reading programs can be expanded to include insights from other disciplines, specifically those areas of instruction which pertain to the neuropsychological mechanisms governing behavior, especially language behavior. There are several reasons for expanding the boundaries of college reading programs to…

This paper describes deep viewing, a research and instructional method used to reach social understandings of visual texts through the use of communal talk, pictorial, and written means. It provides a means of analysis for any type of visual text. The theoretical origins and premises of deep viewing are examined. Also, the deep viewing methodology…

This study examined memory representation as it is exhibited in young children's formation of facial prototypes. In the first part of the study, researchers constructed images of faces using an Identikit that provided the features of hair, eyes, mouth, nose, and chin. Images were varied systematically. A series of these images, called exemplar…

Two hypotheses were tested in this study: (1) that the elaborateness of children's descriptions would increase with grade level, and (2) that there would be a decrease in peripheral descriptions and an increase in central descriptions with grade level. A total of 211 kindergarten through eighth-grade students were instructed to describe an adult…

In a test of auditory discrimination, 15 normal adults and 15 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss repeated monosyllabic words under conventional and subject-controlled methods of presentation. (Author/LS)

Ninety-nine articles published between 1825 and 1974 pertaining to the role of women in Native American societies are cited. (NQ)

Regents must determine, and contribute in full democratic chorus, their particular visions of the universities' role in developing the kinds of people and policies needed to sustain life and the western tradition of free thought. (Author/MLF)

The purpose of this paper is to describe a new piece of apparatus for generating stimuli for what Michotte (1963) called 'the perception of causality'. (Author)

The present study used videotaped horse races to test Kelley's attribution theory of the way people perceive the causes of behavior. (Editor)

The Wisconsin State Employment Security Division has an employment counselor classification scheme which responds to the cry for accountability. This article discusses five basic requirements in the classification system, as well as the overall value of the system. (Author/PC)

This research concerns secondary pupils' interest in school science and their reasons for finding it difficult. (Editor)

Tested the hypothesis that reflective children would be more field-dependent and more internal than their impulsive counterparts. Subjects were first- and third-grade black children. (Author/SDH)