Background: Online crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), have become popular alternatives to the ubiquitous student samples used in psychology research. r/SampleSize, an alternative pool on the website Reddit, allows for online participant recruitment without compulsory or immediate payment, making it potentially useful…

New technologies have led to several major advances in psychological research over the past few decades. Peer nomination research is no exception. Thanks to these technological innovations, computerized data collection is becoming more common in peer nomination research. However, computer-based assessment is more than simply programming the…

How do university students understand the graphs that they read in their textbooks? How does their knowledge regarding the content and their statistical training influence this understanding? Does the kind of task demand also influence this understanding? To answer these questions, we asked a group of psychology students and a group of economics…

This paper had three aims: 1, to make more widely known two methods of assessing recognition, one based on ranking and the other on rating, 2, to describe three experiments comparing the two methods, and 3, to give a preliminary account of the results of some theoretical calculations. (Author/RK)

To test a theory that selective attention to threatening stimuli induces paranoia, an attempt was made to manipulate attention to threatening and nonthreatening statements among college students and examine the effects on three indices of paranoia. (Editor)

The present paper reported on a study designed to test two null hypothesis, first, the prediction that there was no difference in attitudes held by heterosexually and homosexually oriented males, second, there would be no difference in attitudes held by covert and overt male homosexuals. (Author/RK)

Since the life change questionnaire and the A scores (physiological response) purport to measure the level of stress that is being experienced, the degree of agreement between the two measures is of importance. The present investigation compares the results of a questionnaire (Modified Schedule of Recent Events) with scores of autonomic balance…

The reliabilities and validities of true-false and forced-choice formats in personality assessment were compared. (Author)

This research examines one aspect of leader behavior and a personality characteristic of the subordinate, i.e. authoritarianism and how they relate to the attitudes and performance of the subordinate. (Author)

The present study is a multivariate extension of two studies undertaken to identify and describe attitude patterns of clinical psychologists toward issues pertinent to professional training. (Author)

The three field experiments reported here are part of a continuing investigation of the social conditions which cause one person to experience tension coordinated to another's goal attainment. (Editor/RK)

Author considered the proper use of the LSD-type drugs, variously called hallucinogenic, mind-altering, mind-revealing, or psychedelic, and sampled the views of responsible researchers on the use of these drugs for mental health and for the study of the human mind and development. (Author/RK)

This article is concerned with some of the universal but seldom- articulated problems and considerations related to the art of data collection through use of questionnaires. (Author/RK)

A field experiment was conducted to determine the effects of expression of verbal aggression on subsequent verbal aggression of angered and nonangered subjects. (Editor)

An analytic procedure was developed for separating the effects of involvement from the number of response language categories the subject employs in judging a set of sentence stimuli. (Editor)