Article attempted to show that new findings are emerging that may bring the study of probability learning closer to the mainstream of research on human memory and information processing. (Author/RK)

Studies personality differences among prison inmates that could be attributed to the number of felony offenses and the length of incarceration. (Author/RK)

Investigates the construct of locus of control as predictive of goal-directed behavior in a group of Equal Opportunity Committee (EEO) employees. (Author/RK)

Investigates the effects of a label of mental retardation on professionals' perceptions about appropriate treatment for a child with a behavior disorder. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine whether different types of MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) profiles occur for heroin abusers and, if they existed, to describe them. (Author/RK)

Which foundational theorists, concepts, and published literature anchor the emerging narrative perspective in the social sciences, particularly psychology? A panel of 19 scholars who actively publish from this viewpoint and drawn mostly from psychology and sociology (N=10 and 5, respectively) was surveyed to offer expert judgment about this…

This study was designed to help determine whether there are gender differences in the psychological and moral development of traditional-age college students. Two hundred thirty-three first-year and graduating students were given the Student Development Task and Lifestyle Inventory (SDTLI) and the Defining Issues Test (DIT) to determine whether…

The paper states that there are negative physical and psychological effects from video games. The physical effects include asthenopia and weight gain. The psychological effects include confusion between reality and fiction, and immature relationships with others. However, video games can also have a therapeutic effect in some cases. Four positive…

This paper presents a collection of thoughts and observations about a grand theory of creativity in the arts. The theory elaborated in the paper is based upon the following five major bodies of psychological knowledge and research: (1) hemisphere differences and cerebral lateralization; (2) chemical balance in the brain and bipolar factors; (3)…

The Kingdom of Swaziland, made up primarily of people of Swazi ethnicity, has gone through dramatic social, political, and economic changes throughout this century, due in no little part to colonial and post-colonial influences. But because the political state reflects the ethnic homogeneity of its people, traditions have changed more slowly than…

Studied scientists' and nonscientists' motivational conditions by administrating the School Motivation Analysis Test to secondary students who were classified as scientists and nonscientists according to an occupational scale. Concluded that differences can be explained in terms of dynamic traits and that science bias was instrumental in securing…

The present experiment uses a variation of the repeti design of Hebb (1961) to ask the question of the fate of individual items in the Brown-Peterson task at a time when, if interference does indeed dissipate, the old items that produce interference should no longer be available to compete with new items. (Author)