A practicing white investigator reports on his experiences in conducting research in black communities; the adequacy of traditional academic training for the conduct of research in black communities is questioned. (Author/JM)

Paper based on doctoral dissertation submitted at the New York University in Albany. Study seeks to correlate physical attractiveness and date choices. Evidence indicates that subjects' self-evaluated physical attractiveness did relate to subjects' estimate of chances of acceptance by date choice. (DS)

Presented in modified form at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurosurgical Society, Ojai, California, March 26, 1970. (VM)

Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, University of Minnesota, and National Research Council of Canada. (DS)

Discusses a psychological criticism approach to literature and explores the psychology of English Canadians and French Canadians as it relates to literature. Written in French. (HS)

Summarizes an extensive survey of research on early education and questions the need for State intervention. (Author)

Defensiveness was the major reaction of students subjected to failure on an important examination; their self ideal-self discrepancy scores changed in a downward direction after they were given papers containing failing marks. (Editor)

Effect of instructional conditions on the nature of memory errors was studied using a false recognition procedure. (Authors)

A description of various causes and effects of noise pollution with suggestions for related classroom activities. (CP)

Testing Pollack's hypothesis that decreases in effective contour contrast (resulting from a decrease in receptor sensitivity with age or from a change in actual stimulus contrast) lead to decreases in illusion magnitude. Conclusions are questioned by Sjostrom and Pollack (PS 501 740). (Author/MB)

Females cheated in response to consistently unfavorable self-perceptions, while males were influenced by immediate situational factors. (Authors)

Investigation combined two heretofore unconnected research areas: the newly structured operation of divergent thinking and the older domain of family resemblances. (Author)

An image of the retarded emerged from the drawings, which, generally, were convergent on the adult level but divergent for the adolescents. (Authors)