Explains how people arrive at personal hazard assessments. Explores why people overestimate some hazards and underestimate others. Examines risk ratings for activities and technologies such as nuclear power, motor vehicles, pesticides, and vaccinations. (MA)

Three approaches to the same geometrical problem are presented to demonstrate the role of intuition in mathematics and to clarify the concept of insight. (MP)

Utilizes the results of a study that examined how information was sought and actually used in everyday situations to emphasize that an understanding of the self-informing process can improve the services of adult services librarians by increasing their awareness and by suggesting communication skills needed. (Author/JD)

Eight newborn babies were tested to see whether they could make discriminating head-turn responses to the sound of a 9-second recording of a human voice coming 15 degrees, 30 degrees, and 80 degrees from the midline, from either the right or left side. Journal availability: see EC 113 765. (Author)

Results suggest that the number of pictures and artistic motion cues used to depict an event have a significant effect on first-grade children's perception of mathematical relationships. (MP)

Two experiments measured changes in binocular eye alignment from 1- to 6-month-old infants. Experiment 1 recorded these changes from 1-, 2-, and 3-month-olds, using corneal photography. Experiment 2 measured responses of 3-, 4 1/2-, and 6-month-olds as a wedge prism was placed alternately before each eye. (MS)

Investigates the relationship between performance on field-independence tests and two variables which may be thought of as important determinants of performance on a variety of cognitive tasks: impulsiveness and previous education. (Author/RC)

The concepts of iconic memory and schematic memory are used to examine two fundamental and related features of the contemporary theory of visual information processing. (Editor)

In an attempt to analyze systematically where power is and why it accumulates where it does, this study identifies how a voluntary consortium in higher education perceives the power systems in the institutional hierarchy. (MB)

Whether aesthetic appreciation (defined as an individual emotional response enjoyed for itself without regard to future considerations or applications) can be translated into classroom experience is discussed. (RW)

Younger (N=31) and older (N=21) men participated in a bogus convergent-thinking task in which they rated their effort expenditure after experiencing varying degrees of success. As predicted, results indicated younger, but not older men perceived they tried harder when they succeeded relative to when they failed. (Author)

A study of faculty attitudes toward academic advising reveals differing views of the need for advising, its professional relevance, and student-faculty involvement. (Author)