The effect of a realistic noise level (typing) on the intellectually challenging task of proofreading was examined. The results indicate noise subjects were poorer at identifying grammatical errors, worked slower and less steadily. (Author/DE)

Thirty female nurses were given a nine-hour death education course. The results were lower scores on the death anxiety test. (Author/DE)

Subjects performed two tasks of logical reasoning at each of six different times of day. In terms of speed, performance on both tests was found to improve markedly from 08.00 to 14.00 and then to fall off fairly rapidly. (Editor)

This paper describes and tests a two-stage model for a "semantic congruity effect" in comparative judgments. (Editor)

The purpose of the present experiment was to compare auditory with visual perception of rhythmic temporal patterns. (Author)

In this article author reviewed the available data on adverse effects of sensitivity training, laying particular emphasis on those recent studies which have attempted to replace rhetoric with evidence. (Author/RK)

The present study gives personality descriptions of exhibitionists derived from the MMPI in an attempt to shed light on clinically derived postulations. (Author)

The present study investigated the relationship between locus of control and defensive style as assessed by the Defensive Mechanism Inventory (DMI). (Author)

Two experiments were carried out investigating the extent to which recognition responses to pictures are based on specific detail vs. general information. (Editor)

The hypothesis that observers would attribute more generality to an observed sample of behavior than would actors was tested in four related experiments. (Editor)

The operation of a covert information processing mechanism was investigated in two experiments of the self-persuasion phenomena; i. e., making an inference about a stimulus on the basis of one's past behavior. (Editor)

This study assesses the effectiveness of two stress-reducing strategies in a field setting. (Editor)

The data of B. D. Layton and B. Turnbull's (1974) two extra sensory perception (ESP) experiments are used to illustrate Bayesian hypothesis tests that provide more useful information than is obtained from significance tests. (Editor)

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

A group of 240 men and women of various ages were given the opportunity to express altruistic behavior in an interpersonal situation by granting a favor of permitting the experimenters, one white woman and two white men in their mid-twenties to enter a store check-out line ahead of them during the Christmas rush. The researchers hypothesized that…