A subset of a real data set was used to illustrate an ad hoc analysis with missing data on multiple response variables. This strategy was initiated with a complete-case analysis to determine some variables that may be deleted with no loss in effects of interest. (SLD)

Eighty kindergartners predicted and explained protagonists' emotional responses to hypothetical events. Children predicted anger most often when they believed protagonists could change undesirable situations and reinstate their goals and when they focused on persons or conditions that caused undesirable situations. Children predicted sadness most…

Self-efficacy expectation to perform in both male- and female-dominated occupations and salience in work and home roles were assessed in 64 female and 49 male undergraduates. Self-efficacy in traditionally male occupations predicted commitment to work role for women but not for men. Women expected to participate in more home-related activities.…

Argues that public management researchers should emulate the scientific approaches of physicists and other scientists. Shows that the creative use of language and stories underlies many of the great advances in physics and engineering and that adoption of certain concepts is related to their practicality. (Author/JOW)

Neural network technology was compared with simultaneous and stepwise linear discriminant analysis in terms of their ability to classify and predict persons (n=138) as having autism or mental retardation. The neural network methodology was superior in both classifying groups and in generalizing to new cases that were not part of the training…

Nine members of the institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy's (REBT) International Training Standards and Review Committee predicted the status of REBT 25 to 50 years after the death of Albert Ellis. Will REBT continue to exist in its own right or be incorporated into newer forms of cognitive behavior therapy? (EMK)

Examines gender and three aspects of couples' (N=50) marital intimacy using a method establishing both objective and subjective indices of intimacy. Results suggest that high intimacy is based on both understanding and similarity of intimate experience. Women reported higher levels of intimacy and were also better than men in predicting their…

Analyzes the relationship between success on the two new practice-test forms (EE and FF) developed by Steck-Vaughn and success on the General Educational Development (GED) test. Success with practice-form EE correlated with GED test scores; form FF failed to correlate. (JOW)

In a study of 221 employees, perceptions of organizational culture and discrepancy between ideal and actual culture predicted both task performance and contextual (altruism, conscientiousness, organizational citizenship) performance. Organizational warmth, organizational competence, and reward were significant predictors of contextual performance.…

A meta-analysis of 31 experiments reported in 18 empirical bankruptcy prediction studies was conducted to test the effect of two information dimensions: information diversity and information repetitiveness. Results indicated that both information dimensions have an adverse impact on decision quality: provision of either diverse or repeated…

Compares eight models for analyzing count data through simulation in the context of prediction of absenteeism to indicate the extent to which each model produces false positives. Results suggest that ordinary least-squares regression does not produce more false positives than expected by chance. The Tobit and Poisson models do yield too many false…

Describes a new theory of likelihood judgments based on D. L. Hintzman's (1984, 1988) MINERVA2 memory model. The model, MINERVA-DM (decision making), accounts for a wide range of likelihood-judgment phenomena. Extends the model to expert-probability judgment and shows how MINERVA-DM can account for both good and poor calibration (overconfidence)…

Marketing students (n=141) completed a pretest describing retail customers most likely to shoplift and viewed videotaped scenarios in which security personnel suspected shoplifting based on ethnic characteristics. A significant gap was apparent between participants' predispositions and actual shoplifting statistics. The videos raised awareness of…

Examines the relationship between reading and drama in learning. Argues that, through the study of their interaction and an examination of parallel processes at work, the potential of drama as a learning tool about reading is revealed. Explores their symbiotic relationship in a drama session which highlights some cognitive and affective…

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Third Edition (D. Wechsler, 1991) (WISC-III) standardization data for 2200 children and WISC-III data for 33 brain-injured and 66 comparisons were used to explore premorbid prediction strategies for use with children. Results support the utility of approaches based on best WISC-III performance and on…