Privacy is conceptualized as a dynamic, interpersonal boundary control process which regulates access to the self. Coupled with desired and achieved privacy levels, a series of social interaction cases are described involving satisfactory and unsatisfactory input-output relationships with others. Mechanisms used to implement desired levels of…

In a noisy setting, college students (N=40) worked at anagrams and proofreading. Students were assigned to a perceived own control or no control condition and to a constant or increasing rate of exposure. Those who believed their rapid button-pressing produced the silence improved significantly at proofreading but not at anagrams. (Author)

This study tests the idea that visual presentation leads to higher performance on a delayed recall test than auditory presentation. It is predicted that the normal immediate free recall procedure yields a different pattern of results on a delayed test than a condition having immediate recall of each list. (CLK)

Describes a course designed to help solve the confusion and bewilderment about their role and future in society with which many students must deal. (Author/RK)

In 1974 Wood proposed a hybrid serial-parallel model to account for the within-stimulus interactions between the acoustic cue of "pitch" and the phonetic cue of "place". These experiments found Wood's research independent of his subjects' experience, the order of cue presentation, and whether the cues are presented simultaneously or sequentially.…

Considers listener expectancies based on timing redundancy in continuous speech and the interaction between the effects of segmental and suprasegmental cues during ongoing perception. (Editor/RK)

Investigated whether students would perceive items arranged in a hard-medium-easy order as being more difficult than the same items arranged in an easy-medium-hard order and whether the arrangements would influence scores. (MS)

On the whole, the questionnaire responses of the black and Puerto Rican high school students displayed less social distance toward their white peers than did the whites toward the minorities. (Author)

This essay explored the authority relation between parents and teachers, their respective spheres of influence, the quality of their relationships, and the potential for building constructive alliances between them. (Author/RK)

Materials selected for instruction should be concerned and sensitive to the self-concept of all children. (JH)

Presents a perspective on some of the various roles assumed by white faculty on the black college campus, arguing that in order to determine what role the white faculty member should play on the black college campus, the disparity in perceptions which exists between the black college and the white faculty member as to how this role should be…