In this article, new arguments and empirical evidence are presented justifying the use of standardized R- analysis (or equivalently Q- technique) in certain types of factor-analytic studies. (Editor)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimality of the formation of biases and their effect on the optimality of subsequent information processing. (Author/RK)

One of the concerns of the present study was to determine the effects of Right and Wrong items under conditions that do not reduce the opportunity to rehearse the Right items in practice. (Author/RK)

Investigated the relationship of five selected traits of authoritarianism, possessed by both college freshmen and their instructors, to student achievement in freshman English, concluding that student achievement tended to be affected more by teacher traits. (RB)

Results indicated that several significant main and interaction effects emerged on social interactions criteria for structured learning therapy. Interaction effects for structured learning therapy and psychotherapy suggested primarily a mutual inhibition'' of treatment effectiveness. The implications of these findings for further studies of…

Research should be supplemented with measures that do not require respondent cooperation. Unobtrusive'' measures were developed in this study to describe each ward in a state hospital, including such items as use of window curtains and style of staff dress. This ward profile'' correlated with such criteria as readmission rate, length of stay,…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of competition on the level of schizophrenic thought disorder by having groups of schizophrenics perform a task under competitive and noncompetitive conditions. (Author)

Correlates of very highly elevated, uninterpretable'' Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs) of white and black psychiatric inpatients were obtained by comparing descriptors for these profiles with those for less elevated profiles in two independent samples. (Author)

The present study presents empirical information regarding the relationship between several methods of assessing proxemic behavior. Information was collated and evaluated with respect to four methods of measuring proxemic behavior: in vivo participation, observation of live actors, felt-board placements, and preferential response to photographs.…

The purpose of the present study was to investigate how two language variables--affective content and contextual constraint--might contribute to language disturbance in schizophrenia. (Author)

Vocal style was proposed as a useful variable with which to classify groups of clients in order to study the differential effects of various therapeutic maneuvers. Relationships between voice quality ratings in early psychotherapy interviews and pretherapy Rorschach and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores were investigated in order…

The hypothesis that felt inadequacy inhibits help seeking was fully supported, while the corresponding hypothesis regarding lack of opportunity to reciprocate received only partial support. (Author)

Level of moral maturity was assessed in a group of children three to six years old, using stories or films to elicit judgments about relative goodness or badness. At all age levels, training had a significant effect in changing the moral orientation of the children. (Author/KM)

Two experiments are an attempt to provide a description of three commonly observed phenomena of recognition behavior for alphabet characters in terms of the mathematics of correlation. (Author/KM)