In the present paper, the selection of scales and concepts and the format for administration are discussed in terms of an underlying linear model. (Editor)

Considers the hypothesis that thought results in the "reinterpretation" of inconsistent beliefs so as to make them more consistent with the initial attitude direction. The resulting cognitions, being more univocal would, in turn, produce attitude polarization. (Author/RK)

In 1954 Osgood and Luria reported a blind analysis of a case of triple personality, popularly known as "The Three Faces of Eve," that had been analyzed by Thigpen and Cleckley. Here they combined with Robert Jeans to do a similar blind analysis of a case Jeans was treating in the late 1960s. (Editor/RK)

The connotative structure of self-concept was examined by factor analysis of a semantic differential instrument and found to be essentially constant through adolescence, more so for boys than for girls. (Author)

Using the Semantic Differential, 274 first-year university students rated four concepts concerning university, producing scores on evaluation', potency' and activity'. For comparision these concepts were each paired with a concept relating to school. (Author)

Results indicate that the troublesome scale/concept interaction which in past studies has lowered the internal validity of many investigations can be reduced by the simple expedient of controlling for homogeneity of domain of scales and concepts employed. (Authors)

Data collected in a study of hospital staff attitudes to drug addicts and other types of patients are used to illustrate the problem of concept-scale interaction in semantic differential research. (Authors)

The effects of initial practice teaching on the self-conceptions of 50 Monash University Diploma in Education students were measured over a pretest-posttest interval of five weeks. (Editor)

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that a semantic differential instrument can serve as a functional affective measuring device. (Author)

A model of the organization of interpersonal judgments, based on the hypothesis that people tend to organize their judgments in Golden Section ratios, was presented. A theory of the process of interpersonal judgment, based on the notion that people judge acquaintances using a Fibonacci-like decision rule, was then developed. A computer simulation…

Examines the effects of different-intensity unconditioned stimuli as well as generalization to related and unrelated test words. Its results indicate that semantic generalization is not a consequence of mediated generalization as traditionally conceived. (Editor/RK)

The position taken in this paper is that if a person were an actual user of a Rorschach percept, the clinical significance of the percept undoubtedly would be different from that of the non-user who had minimal interest in the percept. (Author)

It was found that the measure of adjustment was significantly related to mathematics performance after the effects of anxiety and intelligence were partialled out. (Authors)

Two studies are reported dealing with the responses of preschool children to adjectives which carry connotations of evaluation, potency, and activity among older children and adults. (Authors)