Research performed by HumRRO Division No. 3, Presidio of Monterey, California 93940, under Dept. of the Army contract with George Washington University.

Phase I of the Measurement of Respondent Burden is described. The focus of the study was upon correlates of self perceived respondent burden, i.e., factors associated with the presence of negative feelings such as annoyance, frustration or inconvenience which may be experienced by survey participants during face-to-face interviews at their homes.…

This book attempts to bring together semantic theory and description in order to provide the foundation of a unified "semantics of English." Part 1 is thus devoted to semantic theory and Part 2 to the description of some central fields of meaning in English. In Part 1, theory is developed involving two kinds of semantic analysis:…

Examined suicides from 1973 to 1979. Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were associated with an unusually low risk of suicide before, during, and after the holiday. New Year's Day, July 4th, and Labor Day were associated with a low risk of suicide before the holiday and a high risk just afterwards. Only white teenagers deviated from this…

The articles in this issue review the history of the sociological study of different societies' conceptions of time. Social time is the way people regard and employ time dependent on economic conditions, the organization of daily life, the cultural setting, and religion. (JDH)

Four steps to helping children discover the reasons for clocks. (Editor)

Part II of an examination of assumptions behind future planning for education. Related article is EA 500 732. (KJ)

A result-getting approach that entails clearly defining a committee's responsibility and establishing a deadline for fulfilling it. (Author/MF)

Research supported by a Public Health Service Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and a grant from the National Science Foundation.

To determine by classical time-estimation procedures if Type A persons estimate the passage of time differently than Type B persons, undergraduate male students, classified by the Jenkins Activity Survey, were asked to estimate several time periods. Responses to verbal, production, and reproduced time-estimation tasks were not significantly…

Tests relationships between indicators of domestic integration, focusing on divorce and suicide with data from the United States from 1933 to 1970. For the whole period, an increase in the divorce rate was associated with an increase in the suicide rate independent of trends in unemployment and birth. (Author/HLM)