The relationship between perceptual sensitivity and stimulus emotionality was investigated employing a methodology aimed to preclude the intervention of response variables. (Editor)

This study deals with how long managers perceive it will take them to learn their positions, and how long their superiors and subordinates estimate it will take them to learn. (Author)

The present experiments were an attempt to clarify the mixed results on the interitem manipulation of implicit associative responses in verbal discrimination. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the reported relationship between IE scores and self-reported anxiety would be found when a nonobtrusive measure of aniety was employed. (Author)

Based on a theory of self-awareness it was hypothesized that induced attention to the self would facilitate aggression if the salient standard of behavior was one in which high aggression was positively valued. (Editor)

Two experiments were performed to examine the influence of liking on causal attributions of another person's behavior. (Editor)

A central theoretical issue is that of the cognitive status of imagery. Detractors emphasize the merely-sensory aspects while proponents emphasize the also-symbolic aspects. Examined with reference to this issue are the theories of Piaget and Bruner, recent studies of concept learning and representation, and studies related to the Craik and…

This paper describes the results of a study to further test and replicate previous studies partially supporting Kris's view that creativity is a regression in the service of the ego. For this sample of 42 female art and business college students, it was predicted that (1) highly creative Ss (measured by the Torrance Tests) produce more, and more…

Five institutionalized severely retarded women participated in 18 group assertive training sessions to test whether new assertive behaviors could be learned and then transferred and generalized to real life situations. Pre- and post-test measures were taken on four components of assertion in trained and non-trained sets of interpersonal…

The author outlines his 25-year attempt to understand the dynamics of humor. He views humor as the sine qua non of self actualization and maturity. The humorist has an adamant sense of his own significance without having to prove himself better than others or to prove his worth through some role performance. Connections with humankind--past,…

The effect of using either abstract or concrete words on verbal problem solving was examined in this study. Twelve undergraduate students in each of two conditions mentally solved identically structured problems by reordering and chaining together previously memorized pairs of words. Subjects who received concrete words both memorized the word…

Two experiments contrasted the effects of high and low ego strength (as measured by Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire) on confidence thresholds (FG scores) under the anticipation and recall methods. (Editor)

A rule for selecting components from the stimulus compounds was established during first-list learning. (Editor)

Article described a project in which a group of Danish children with schizophrenic mothers (high-risk children) have been periodically assessed and followed since 1962. (Editor/RK)

The relation among motives for drug use, the degree of drug usage, psychopathology, and acute adverse reactions to marijuana and LSD were examined using retrospective data. (Editor)