Sense of direction was studied as a verbal expression of people's estimation of their own spatial orientation ability, rather than as a special mental faculty. Relates sense of direction to cognitive ability and to self concept. (Editor/RK)

Investigations of the relation between judged length and measured length have concentrated on determining the form of the psychophysical function. The process by which the observer arrives at his judgment has not been described. An exploratory experiment was carried out in an attempt to identify the process. (Author)

A model was proposed as an alternative to current models for categorical perception, which refers to the apparent responding to stimuli only in absolute terms. The model proposed that a single (common) factor causes both a peak in the discrimination function and a categorical dichotomy and thus the correlation between the two. (Editor/RK)

Presents a model that borrows concepts of economic utility theory to describe the effects on behavior of a contingency among responses. If subjects allocate their time among responses to maximize the value of their behavior, contingency may be seen to restrict the set of available allocations. Describes the allocation of time to contingent,…

Koch (1974) has argued that psychology is an imitation science, because it has failed to build an edifice of positive knowledge; and that it cannot logically do any better in the future. This research rejects this skeptical argument but suggests that we should think in a different way about the subject. (Editor/RK)

Two experiments are reported in which recall of the same information is compared following different priming passages. In one case the subjects were primed by material that was consistent with the content of the main passage; in a second case, the priming introduced information in conflict with it. It was found that inconsistent priming led to…

This study compared the effects of contextual constraint, "the extent to which the choice of a particular word depends upon the words that precede it" (Miller and Selfridge, 1950), and list length on short-term recall of word lists by 24 chronic schizophrenics and 120 normal subjects. (Editor/RK)

Attempted to provide a direct investigation of the nature and stress-reducing quality of complementary projection, a process by which an individual attributes causality for his or her own feelings, traits, or behaviors onto other people. (Author/RK)

To examine the hypothesis that certain types of irrational beliefs covary with the severity of depression, 156 undergraduates completed the Beck Depression Inventory and R. G. Jone's Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT). (Author)

The author has written a metaphysical sports fantasy and completed a novel which explores evolutionary transformations of the mind and body. Now he is working on a long-term research project exploring radical bodily transformations occurring in various fields of human experience. This article on sport is part of that project. (Editor/RK)

This research attempts to use the interview technique to ascertain the personal experiences of athletes and to achieve a general characterization of at least one subjective aspect in sport, those experiences involved in an athlete's "greatest moment" while participating in sport. (Author/RK)

Three experiments are reported that were designed to delineate the properties of the stimulus encoding stage in reaction time tasks of varying stimulus-response compatibility. (Editor)

The relatedness of four elements (tone, white noise, click, and a buzz) making up a recycled pattern was varied to determine the effects of streaming (sounds that break into separate channels) on the ease of correctly ordering the elements. Results suggest the organization of elements into streams by similarity supplants the organization by…

The present study replicated the procedure of Kausler et al. (1975) as a means of testing further the hypothesis that the processing of wrong items differs qualitatively, as well as quantitatively, from the processing of right items. (Author)

The concept of a scene schema was used to predict the kinds of information that will be remembered from complex pictures over relatively long periods of time. Recognition of eight types of transformations on both organized and unorganized pictures was tested either immediately following presentation or at intervals of a day, a week, or 4 months.…