Two aspects of self-referent accuracy (SRA), a person's ability to judge accurately how others regard him are investigated

Reviews two inflexible characterizations found in the literature, and argues for the superiority of a third conception now gaining currency. It is then shown how the third characterization helps to understand blacks and women. (DM)

Work supported in part by four U.S. Public Health Service grants. (VM)

Author believes that students are rejecting stereotyped views of sex roles because they find them inappropriate to contemporary life. The current college generation hopes to achieve greater overlap in the spheres of activity reserved for men and women. (Author/CB)

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish several different ways in which phonemic information might be employed in spelling, to examine some empirical data on the consequences of using these different information sources, to formulate hypotheses about the underlying processes involved, and to suggest possible implications for the learning and…

Authors' findings substantiate the view that reliance on any single test of front-back (which is based upon the child's own body) is likely to yield a misleading picture of the quality of the child's knowledge of front-back, (Authors/MB)

If the measures used in this study were valid indicators of phenomenal environmental oppressiveness, then it would seem that suicidal adolescents do not see their world as any more overwhelming or overpowering than do others of the same age. (Authors)

An analysis of information exchange about a Corps of Engineers water management project reveals inefficiency in mass media communication, thus inhibiting knowledgeable public action. The particular failings of current communication channels and procedures (or lack of them) are documented, and suggestions are made for increasing the contribution of…

Blacks are urged to change their attitudes and the attitudes of those who work with them to move from a pattern which sees people as clients or patients to one which views them as constituents who can and should have something to say about what happens to them. (Author)

Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)

To test perceptual responses, 120 subjects viewed 12 experimental and one controlled housing environments. Three levels of building form diversity were combined with four levels of space diversity in the experimental environments. Results indicated that amount of visual coverage of the field of view increased significantly with increases in both…