The basic assumption behind psychoanalytic psychotherapy is that mental contents that were once warded off come to emerge in the course of a successful treatment. This paper focuses on specific contents which a patient became aware of during a psychoanalytic treatment. (Editor)

This study was designed to longitudinally assess the predictive validity and the nature of the relationships of scholastic achievement, clerical skill, and social self-esteem with the job success of hard-core unemployed clerical workers. (Author/RK)

The experiment examines the effects on a number of words that seem irrelevant to semantic communication. The Units of Ritualized Speech (URSs) considered are: 'I mean', 'in fact', 'really', 'sort of', 'well' and 'you know'. (Editor)

Four experiments, all employing the conditioned suppression of licking in thirsty rats, examined the extent to which reinforcement of one component, A, of a compound conditioned stimulus, AB, would "block" conditioning to the other element, B, on the first compound trial. (Editor)

This study assessed the validity of the Pain Apperception Test (PAT) against an accepted and validated predictive measure of pain tolerance, a Kinesthetic After Effects Task (KAE). As well, it replicated an earlier finding by Petrovich that suggested that scores derived from the PAT are related significantly to neuroticism. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study is to test an explanation for the actor-observer phenomenon which is derived from a focus of attention-causal attribution notion. (Author)

Two experiments were conducted in which first-year students were asked to read a passage of prose under different conditions, chosen to represent realistic study strategies. (Editor)

The author, by referring to psychological and sociological research studies, cautions both teacher groups and boards of education in the activity of teacher negotiations. (JA)

The present paper reviews directionality trends in the drawing of horizontally extended figures and specifically investigates the influence of reading and writing habits and of handedness on directionality in adults. (Author)

The reactive effect of self-monitoring was examined in three experiments. Some results indicated that self-monitoring was reactive, providing a performance goal or feedback augmented the reactive effects of self-monitoring, and the act of self-recording led to behavior change. (Author)

Schizophrenic and normal subjects' responses to the Stanford-Binet Vocabulary items, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Vocabulary items, and the WAIS Similarities items were scored by two methods, one relatively strict and the other relatively lenient. (Editor)

Article compared the perceptions and motivations of delinquents who were institutionalized in 1954 with those imprisoned in 1974. (Author/RK)

The experiments reported here attempted to examine the processing demands during a directed forgetting operation and to permit a comparison between pupillary response and secondary task performance as indexes of information processing. (Author/RK)

Authors attempted to measure a few key variables associated with the Porter-Lawler (1968) expectancy model in order to determine its validity. (Author/RK)