Discusses the original and new methods of personnel recruitment and selection utilized by the Peace Corps, stressing the need for a body of rigorous experimental studies supporting scientific procedures in this area; and reports a study of Peace Corpsmen in the South Pacific. (JM)

The purpose of the present experiments was to further explore the role of choice by giving Ss the opportunity to choose the stimulus words rather than the response words. (Author)

The present article reports experiments that generalize the observed dependence between retrieval operations. (Author)

Presents six major methods by which characteristics of environments have been related to indexes of human functioning: (1) ecological dimensions; (2) behavior settings; (3) dimensions of organizational structure; and, (4) dimensions identifying the collective personal and/or behavioral characteristics of the milieu inhabitants; and two others.…

Eye movement data indicate that perceptual efficiency increases with familiarization of graphemes. Research supported by grant from National Institute of Health. (DS)

Author reviews a book on America's founder of research in child study, G. Stanley Hall, and suggests omissions which could have made it more interesting. (RK)

The purpose of this study was to investigate an alternative approach to the aptitude-treatment-interaction method of adapting instruction to individual differences. (Author)

Sex-role concepts of 162 senior college women are explored in relationship to ego strenght, happiness, and achievement plans: the majority of women believe it possible to assume the roles of wife and mother while concomitantly pursuing extra-familial interests. (Author/JM)

Paper read at Conference on New Approaches to Behavioral Research on Smoking sponsored by the American Cancer Society in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

Evidence indicates many smokers use cigarettes as an important aid to coping and as an ego-enhancer. Paper read at the American Cancer Society Conference on Smoking in Tucson, Arizona, on March 30 and 31, 1972. (DS)

Contends that ultimate control of behavior does not yet rest with individual and that learning theory may have to turn outward toward society before it can turn inward toward individual. (DS)

Reports on four studies conducted to test validity of self-report data from smokers on what type smoking they follow. Two studies cover positive or negative effect stimuli; two deal with effect of smoking deprivation on the smokers. (DS)

Research findings in child development are reviewed to shed light on female achievement motives, with the suggestion that females have high needs for affiliation which influence their achievement motives and behavior, sometimes enhancing and sometimes blocking them. (Author/JM)

Compares the linguist's treatment of the speech of Negro children with that of educational psychologists such as Bereiter and Engelmann, and demonstrates the deficiencies of the latter. (FB)

It was concluded that the scaled preference values have high face validity and that they suggest the need for reexamination of some previous experimental results. (Author)