A study (N = 60) was conducted to investigate the relationship between sex, the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, and measures of social influence. It was found that regardless of the subject's sex, masculine and androgynous persons received more positive peer evaluations than feminine persons. (Author)

The author discusses how the label "counseling" is appropriate and yet fosters misperception of the counseling psychologist's identity. He makes suggestions for re-educating both professionals and the public as to the counseling psychologist's identity. (Author/JEL)

Reviews several studies of identity and intergroup perception conducted in Israel during the past ten to fifteen years. For availability see CS 704 480. (MH)

The eye movements of infants, between 4 and 11 weeks old, were recorded while they viewed either a representation of a face or nonface stimulus. (Author/SB)

Subjects aged 8, 10, 12, and 18 years participated in two visual search tasks. (Author/SB)

This study was designed to determine whether infants could perceive action role reversals when the direction of action is ruled out as a cue; whether infants consider inanimate, nonpotent objects to be unlikely agents; and whether both these discriminations could be reliably reflected in the heart rate response. (Author/SB)

Shows that interview effects can occur when the respondent's attitudes and information are unfocused or ambiguous and when the topic is important. Explains these interview effects by the respondent's desires to maintain self-esteem during the interview situation. (RL)

Indicates that persons with different spatial visualization abilities enter different professions and that some sex differences exist with regard to spatial abilities. (RL)

Discussed is the nature of a central scotoma, or decreased central vision, and described are current techniques for training an individual to use the peripheral retina. (Author/IM)

The purpose of this study was to determine what degree of interrelationships existed at the beginning and end of the school year among rank orders of various factors. Results found no significant correlations among sixth grade students' attitudes towards taking mathematics and the variables: general ability, achievement, or teacher's perceptions.…

Presents results of an investigation of visual cues which lead to word and letter recognition. (SL)

Perceptions by non-Indian prairie residents of Indians and their current situation were examined through an early 1976 survey. Results indicated that non-Indian prairie residents perceived differences between the two groups, had a degree of awareness of problems facing the Indian population, and were not generally hostile to the process of…

Two studies explored the hypothesis that young children perceive integrally some stimuli that older children perceive separably. In both experiments, kindergarten, second- and fifth-grade children were required to classify sets of stimuli that varied in size and brightness. (SB)

The development of elementary school children's graphic representations of the large-scale environment in the context of the development of spatial cognition, especially Piagetian theory, is examined. The nature of children's graphic representations of space is reviewed and examined relative to development of their spatial cognition. (BT)

The three female characters in Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe" are analyzed. The article questions the value of using this play in a college curriculum because of the oppressive and unenlightened roles of the female characters. (TL)