Sport psychology is defined in terms of human behavior in athletic situations. The psychosocial cross-cultural setting provides a model for studying trait and state psychosocial attributes and suggests issues and concerns for further study. (JMF)

Describes recent currents in psychological literature pertaining to the learning process, specifically the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Demonstrates how these psychological advances can help with economic analysis. (Author/KC)

Reviews the literature of the research done in cognitive psychology and linguistics as it relates to psycholinguistics. Suggests that advances in various separate fields have been synthesized with their application to classroom instruction in reading and writing. (TJ)

Presents a series of four experiements designed to test the view that the process where a spoken suffix impairs retention of a sequence's last item has a different basis from that producing impairment of the retention of an earlier item. (AM)

Examines the reasons for differences in conclusions about the way conditional sentences are comprehended. (AM)

Reports on an investigation of the role of letter and order information in lexical access, using an interference paradigm in a lexical decision task. (Author/AM)

Participation in a team sport should be viewed differently from participation in an individual sport in relation to winning and losing since, while winning has aggression reduction value to both types of participants, losing may be more frustrating for individual athletes than for team participants. (MB)

Several explanations have been offered in recent research for schizophrenic symptomatology within an interpersonal situation. This study attempts to separate two possible antecedent conditions, contextual emotionality and demand for self-disclosure, in order to clarify the immediate antecedents of symptomatic expression. (Editor/RK)

The effects of prior interview experiences on subsequent test responding were examined by comparing the influence of three interviewer behaviors: interviewer self-disclosure, interviewer verbal reinforcement of self-referent statements, and direct instructions to be self-disclosive. (Editor)

The research reported here was directed at evaluating whether or not the effectiveness of a Pavlovian unconditioned stimulus (US) in promoting associative learning is reduced if the US is shortly preceded by another occurrence of the same US. (Author)

A field study and a laboratory experiment were conducted to test the hypothesis that the method by which an attitude was formed is a crucial variable affecting attitude-behavior consistency. (Editor)

Discusses the "chutzpah factor", the ability to transcend fear and enter into the unknown, in altered states of consciousness, especially in what are known as "adept" individuals. Examines the powerful effect a person's belief system has upon what he or she is able to do and endure. (Editor/RK)

In the investigation described here, the relationship between individual differences of intelligence, as measured by the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS; Wechsler, 1958), and inspection time has been examined. (Author)

The present investigation was designed to examine the relationship, if any, between extraversion and modes of reinforcement (reward or punishment) in verbal operant conditioning (VOC). (Author)

This study investigates the effects of subject arousal on recall in a task generating numerous errors and the extent to which the performance differences found in verbal learning as a function of subject arousal are obtainable in the context of a study on the recall of connected discourse. (Author/RK)