Holds that interrater agreement for journal manuscript reviews has seemed unacceptably low because it has been assessed using techniques such as the intraclass correlation, which compares error variance with the variance due to manuscripts. Describes and recommends an alternative approach for computing interrater agreement. (GC)

Considers the proper or effective roles that behavioral scientists can play in the policy domain and the problems and disadvantages inherent in assuming these roles. (Author/CMG)

Provides comments on research studies related to memory systems, considering those exploring the nature of memory traces. One researcher suggests that memory trace circuits are extremely localized (as opposed to being diffuse), such that a lesion in a rabbit's brain can completely destroy the trace for a particular learned response. (JN)

Presents results of a national commission's investigation of psychosurgery. Results indicate the procedure to be effective in the cure of patients suffering from pain accompanied by depression, while avoiding the destruction caused by prefrontal lobotomies. (SL)

Factor analysis is a statistical method of reducing a set number of variables by finding similarities between them. This paper reviews the potential of factor analysis, focusing on exploratory factor analysis, in research on psychotherapy. Within the field of psychotherapy, the use of factor analysis can be classified into three groups. The first…

Leakage of experimental information from debreifed subjects into a university subject pool was studied. It was concluded that in settings similar to those of the experiment, leakage of information is not a serious problem. (Authors)

The present study attempted to demonstrate that subjects do attend to and abstract complex contingencies between events in probabilistic, nondeterministic schedules. (Authors)

Conscious sampling allows the teacher to assess the comparative effectiveness of his teaching methods by measuring the conscious attention of his students to what is going on in the classroom. (CK)