Three groups of judges (31 naive college undergraduates, 29 inexperienced graduate student trainees, and 26 experienced professional persons) viewed ten 1-minute videotaped samples of child behavior. Results indicated significant group differences in number of bases used for judging and in the use of insufficient evidence as a base. (Author)

Relationships between self-esteem and cognitive biases involved in processing self-relevant information are studied. Male (N=49) and female (N=52) college students completed a series of self-esteem measures, participated in an anagram-solving task, and then answered questions concerning their standards for successful achievement and their…

This paper ascertains the degree to which occupational sex-stereotyping is differentially found at different social class levels. Education is found to be strongly correlated with sex-stereotyping of 15 different occupations. Income level, on the other hand, is significantly related to such stereotyping in only two of the 15 cases. (Author)

This study investigated relationships between academic and nonacademic indices of college success and four indices of occupational success of Army officers. Subjects were 103 U.S. Military Academy graduates from the Class of 1962. Results indicated three of the four criteria were significantly predicted. (Author)

Examines the occupational aspirations of adolescent women. Subjects were 149 eleventh graders. Results indicate that many teenage females still subscribe to traditional sex-role values in their occupational aspirations. (Author)

Two surveys of ninth-grade black adolescents, one in 1963 and in 1973, were conducted in two metropolitan areas in the southeast using the same procedures to determine adolescent attitudes toward working wives as a threat to the marital relationship. Results are discussed. (Author)

Ambulatory geriatric patients (N=370) were rated on the Geriatric Rating Scale and results factor analyzed. The scale was found to be composed of three factors: Withdrawal/Apathy, Antisocial Disruptive Behavior, and Deficits in Activities of Daily Living. The results help explain some of the findings regarding sex differences in previous research.…

Described is the approach used by the parents of a 5-year-old deaf boy to teach him to read. (Author/SBH)

Fear of crime among 104 elderly in three southern California communities was studied through collection of data concerning physical and social environments, perception of safety, and fear of crime and precautions taken. The central city group tends to manifest most fear, which is inversely associated with social support variables. (Author)

In terms of people who lived under the same roof, a Senior Center within housing for the elderly was highly satisfactory and widely and frequently used. In terms of the elderly who lived elsewhere, it seems to have had little effect. (Author)

Determinants of a favorable attitude toward retirement were sought in an interview study of 179 top executives, age 55 and over in 13 leading Israeli organizations. It was found that attitude towards retirement appears to be associated more closely with feelings about oneself than with perceptions of the job. (Author)

A basic assumption underlying Holland's theory of careers is that men and women in the same occupation have the same personality pattern. Contrary to expectations, this research shows there are substantial and systematic differences in the Holland raw codes of males and females pursuing the same occupations, especially nontraditional occupations.…

A survey of prevalent and preferred drug education styles revealed that a significant difference exists between the present approach to drug education and the preferred. The attitudes of the drug education specialists were found to be in congruence with the national attitudes toward the above mentioned areas. (Author)

College students were asked to respond to eighteen household, legal, and illegal drugs. Perceptions of strength and dangerousness were highly correlated. Usage and dangerousness tended to be negatively correlated while usage and pleasantness tended to be positively correlated. The dangerousness dimension separated the drugs into legal and illegal…