This paper confronts two interrelated problems, that problem dealing with the psychological concept of attitudes and the problem of attitude measurement. (Author)

These results suggest that knowledge of a criterion group may not consistently alter the test performance of persons from minority groups. (Author)

Findings of this survey indicate that important differences exist between experimenters and students on various issues of human research--psychologists expressing views much more ethically stringent than those by their most typical human subjects. (Authors)

An experiment was conducted to investigate memory in a concept (CI) identification problem as a function of the number of trials. As the performance was significantly better, it was concluded that participants actively try to store and retain information during their search for a solution. (Author/KM)

In three experiments, a procedure was developed to examine the influence of the unattended line on memory for the words in attended lines in selective reading. (Author/KM)

The expectation that a member of a minority cultural or racial group exhibiting deviant behavior would be socially rejected was investigated. Results contrary to expectation are explained in terms of the greater rejection of someone similar (i.e., racial background) to oneself who behaves in a deviant or negatively valued manner. (Author)

The primary purpose of this article is to analyze further the effect of increasing the rate of speech upon comprehension. (Author)

Research supported by grant from the Canada Council. Studies effects of film violence on aggressive behavior. Suggests that for high levels of arousal, an aggressive movie could stop frustration-produced stimuli and hostility. (DS)

The present experiment provided evidence in support of the hypothesis that self monitoring is a reactive data gathering procedure; the only measure to show clear cut self monitoring effects was the one which students were monitoring. (Author)

Subjects discussed or studied situations involving conflicts between universalistic and particularistic obligations, or they discussed items dealing with physical education. A shift toward greater universalism was obtained only in the condition where subjects discussed the conflicts. (RB)

Data indicate that the developmental level of an individual is a significant factor in trace conditioning performance. (Authors)

The data presented discuss the motivations and personality of the female medical school student from the University of California, San Francisco. (Author/JM)