Author discusses the different contexts in which the concept of state is used, drawing on examples from her own research with newborns. (MB)

A description of the 1970 Hayward Study of Attitudes toward family planning and population control among undergraduates, unmarried students at California State College, Hayward. Discussion of the need to persuade people to have fewer children and the future direction of population control policies also presented. (LK)

Two hundred seventh grade Ss were administered a paired comparison scale for the purpose of predicting reinforcer effectiveness of fifteen stimuli. (Authors)

Study found that nonlearners, as well as learners, were unquestionably utilizing strategies at a rate greater than that expected on the basis of chance alone. (Authors)

Results confirmed previous findings that response speeds would be faster following an 18- than a 8-second stimulus duration. (Author)

The acquisition of aggressive responses may likely be a function of the environment's copious provision of imitative models. (Author)

Describes an investigation which was designed to probe the extent to which environmentally concerned citizens share general patterns of ideological and demographic characteristics. Discusses implications, in terms of need to unify a diverse constituency, so as to strengthen the ecology movement. (LK)