Reprints from: John P. Zubek, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

The following hypotheses were tested and confirmed: (1) highly competent females achieve less when their partners are less competent males than when their partners are less competent females, while highly competent males achieve equally well in either case; (2) less competent males and females achieve more when their partners are highly competent…

The relationship between job involvement and satisfaction in white collar employees of an industrial organization in Israel was studied. Job involvement was related significantly to job satisfaction; however, the relationship was mediated by organizational factors. (Author/BEF)

Ninety-six first- through fourth-grade children were administered four cognitive perspective-taking tasks in order to assess their ability to coordinate simultaneously their own viewpoint and another person's differing cognitive viewpoint. (CM)

In this study of eighth-grade boys and girls significant sex differences were found on all measures except field dependence. (MP)

Korman's prediction that performance and satisfaction should be positively related for high self-esteem individuals and unrelated for low self-esteem individuals was tested with samples of scientists, engineers, homemakers, firefighters, and clerical workers. Self-esteem did not appear to be a reliable moderator of the performance-satisfaction…

First- and third-grade children, together with either a friend or a nonfriend, were exposed to cooperative and competitive goal structures. Children's performance was rewarded sequentially as follows: Phase 1, shared rewards; Phase 2, winner take all or proportional rewards; and Phase 3, shared rewards. (JMB)