The focus of this article was with the general question of how stimuli are established as signals or acquire associative strength, and no distinction being made between classical and instrumental experiments. (Author/RK)

The present series of experiments attempted to analyze more fully the contributions of stimulus-reinforcer and response-reinforcer relations to autoshaping within a single conditioning situation. (Author)

This article presents an analysis of the similarities between the stimulus familiarization effect and latent inhibition. (Editor)

Four experiments examined the effects of various instructions on the rate of false recognitions of synonyms, antonyms, nonsemantic associates, and homonyms. (Editor)

Article compared reception with selection stimulus-presentation procedures as research methods in human conceptual behavior. (Author/RK)

Article attempted to find whether there are experimental paradigms that can be employed to determine a sensory scale that is capable of accounting for judgments of differences, ratios, and similarities. (Author/RK)

The central thesis of the present article is that balance theory (Heider, 1946, 1958) or affective-cognitive consistency theory (Rosenberg, 1956, 1965; Rosenberg & Abelson, 1960) provides a framework that can be used to account for all dissonance results . (Author/RK)

In solving a problem, how does the subject single out an intermediate hypothesis? When a sequence of hypotheses does not lead to a solution, how does he revise them? Does he give up the entire sequence? Article considered these problems. (Author/RK)

Author investigated measurement procedures used by Thomas, Jamison, and Hummel (1973) and wondered if these measurements might have produced an artifactual difference between men and women. (Author/RK)

The author, intending to comment on the psychology of women, found that there was no psychology of women and tried, therefore, to establish their psychological identity. (RK)

These four volumes provide a comprehensive survey of the 1,600 factor analytic studies reported in psychological journals between 1941 and 1970. Each study is summarized and indexed using the Psychological Abstracts table of contents. The summaries follow a standard format: purpose, subjects, variables, method, results, and conclusions. The first…

This conference proceedings contains the texts of eighteen papers which were presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Research in Black Psychology. A small group of young black psychologists came together to critique and present research papers, to generate intellectual support for research projects that have not caught the fancy of…

Featured in this report is a summary of an extensive and unique study of color combinations and lighting. The summary presents the highlights of a report by Xr. Harry Helson which brings to fulfillment the complex work of this distinguished psychologist who began his inquiries in the late 50's. The report provides a method of forecasting whether a…

This paper is devoted to a selected review of literature on drug abuse and dependence among children and adolescents. It is divided into seven sections, each giving information on studies, both nationally and internationally, on a particular drug. These are: nicotine, alcohol, organic solvents (sniffing of substances such as plastic cement, laquer…

Two studies were reported which attempted to estimate the stability and construct validity of human salivary response as a measure of individual differences (IDs) in physiological arousal. Twenty-second base line estimates and 20-second response levels to four drops of lemon juice were measured, with the former value being removed from the latter…