Shows that older women are likely to seek mates through the less conventional modes of mate selection and that regardless of the mode of selection, women are consistently disadvantaged. This inequality is attributed to persistence of age preferences in favor of men. (Author)

Three vignettes describing characters who exhibited disordered (antisocial, withdrawn, or self-punitive) behavior were read to second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children. The children were asked what caused the behaviors, whether characters wanted to behave as they did, and whether and how characters could change their behavior. (Author/JMB)

Three experiments (simple versus choice reaction time, Posner letter identification, and Sternberg memory scanning) attempted to determine whether reliable individual differences in cognitive processing exist in children and, if so, whether these differences are systematically related to age and ability. (Author/JMB)

The two-year college-level performance of a group of older male veteran students was compared with the two-year performance of a group of younger male veteran students. The older students did better than the younger students on seven of the nine criteria analyzed. (Author)

This report uses data from videotaped naturalistic interactions and peers' hierarchy rankings of 23 4- to 5-year-olds and 26 7- to 10-year-olds to examine changes in children's use of facial gestures which resemble the dominance-related threat stares of primates. (Author/JMB)

It is argued that wheather the course of cognitive development is characterized by growth, stability, or decline is less a matter of the metamodel on which the theories and data are based. Such metamodels are representations of reality that are not empirically testable. (Author)

Studied the relationship between mental age and progression toward Piaget's stages of concrete operations and formal operations in a sample of middle class children. Formal operations in preadolescence and adulthood are discussed in relation to IQ. (GO)

Ability to distinguish "ask" and "tell" in Spanish was studied with five groups of native Spanish speakers: adults, 7- and 10-year-olds in a full bilingual school and 7- and 10-year-olds in a non-total bilingual school. Increased age, bilingual schooling and presence of contextual clues enhanced performance. (CHK)

Attempted to determine (1) whether children's performance on Luria-type delay tasks is related to social class, IQ, and age; (2) whether performance is consistent or reliable on different delay tasks and at different ages; and (3) whether children's performance is related to the type of delay task and length of delay interval. (Author/SB)

A 5-trial social-conditional reasoning task was administered to 80 children between the ages of 3 and 6 years. The results indicated that by 4 years of age children are able to reason from a premise to its logical conclusion in reasoning about the probable behavior of others. (JMB)

Reported are data on the distribution of childhood disorders among 330 child patients (2 to 19 years old) referred for psychiatric evaluation; and analyzed are relationships among several diagnostic categories and subject variables. (SBH)

Three experiments were performed with young and aged female volunteers (mean ages approximately 25 and 70 years respectively) to evaluate coding ability with ordered and free recall tasks. (BD)

A group of 451 Finnish-speaking undergraduates was examined to study occurrence of articulatory disorders. Distortions of /s/, /r/, /l/, /n/, and /d/ were found. Age and sex were not related to prevalence of disorders. Previous speech therapy tended to correlate with higher frequencies of disorders of /s/ and /r/ sounds. (Author/KM)

A survey of 200 student folders revealed that elementary school (ES) nonpromotion is primarily associated with low academic achievement and IQ, whereas junior high school (JHS) nonpromotion is mainly correlated to behavioral suspensions and absenteeism. Improved performance occurs in the year following an ES nonpromotion but not following a JHS…