Presents an analysis of the effects of a television newscaster's sex and race on audience perceptions of credibility. (Author/GW)

In a retrospective review of 416 alleged cases of sexual assault on victims under the age of 16 years, the authors analyzed the data with respect to race, sex, and age. Journal availability: see EC 143 201. (Author/SB)

To examine the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of learning disabled (LD) students, WISC-R (Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised) subtest scores of 309 kindergarten through sixth grade LD students were analyzed. The 10 subtests were the information, similarities, arithmetic, vocabulary, comprehension, picture completion, picture…

Facial pictures were ranked from characteristically black to clearly white and organized into 3 comparable 6-picture sets of male and female photographs. Pictures were rated for sexual appeal by opposite-sex raters; the raters were either black or white. Results show no sexual appeal effect due to physical characteristics of face for female…

Examined factors affecting belief in afterlife. Data from 1978 subfile on National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey showed that, controlling on frequency of church attendance and religious intensity, Protestants had highest incidence of belief in life after death, followed by Catholics, and then by Jews. Race, religion, and church…

Describes how a male and a female version of the horror tale, studied in tandem, reveal both the universal and the gender-based elements of the genre. (PRA)

A study was conducted to determine whether the work values of delinquent youth differ from those of other youth, and if so, how. Results showed that even as delinquency increases, work values tend to remain stable. Other factors (gender, race, and suspension from school) appear to have a greater impact on work values than does delinquency itself.…

The relationship of the variable of social class to moderate and severe retardation was examined with 148 moderately and severely retarded students (4-12 years old) enrolled in special classes within the public school system. The effects of race and sex were also considered. A. Hollingshead's Two Factor Index of Social Position was used to…

That sexual differentiation and racial differentiation in the occupational structure does not vary substantially across U.S. metropolitan areas is a conclusion of this study. (Author/AM)

Study results show that trainees prefer to be counseled by one of their own race, except for northerm whites who chose a black female counselor as first choice, and a northern white male as second. Awareness is urged by counselor educators of the number and needs of counseling programs for minority disadvantaged groups. (CJ)

Findings suggest that unhappy marriage is a disability, analogous to minority race, economic deprivation or physical illness. (Author)

Thirty-five studies examining the relationship between social class and crime/delinquency are reduced to comparable statistics using as units of analysis instances where the relationship was studied for specific categories of age, sex, race, place of residence, data type, or offense. Findings from 363 instances are summarized and patterns are…

Surveys journalists, finding that female journalists perceive they have as much journalistic autonomy as males while minorities see themselves as having slightly less autonomy. Finds that as newsroom diversity increases, perceived autonomy decreases, especially for minority journalists. (SR)

Data consisting of more than 80 cognitive measures from Project TALENT for 100,000 white and black students was analyzed for possible race by sex interactions. Control variables included geographical area, grade in high school, and socioeconomic class. Race-by-sex interactions were largest when socioeconomic class was controlled, and were highly…