Adults and eight and nine-year-old children were given coincidence-anticipation trials to test their motor reactions and anticipation of motor events. Differences in the order of the trials may have contributed to the differences across age groups. (CJ)

The author investigated possible components of teacher expectancy and attitudes toward the integration of emotionally disturbed students into regular classes with 34 teachers of grades 4 through 6. The label "emotionally disturbed" was found to be a significant predictor of teacher ratings. (Author/SB)

Describes an exercise to help students prepare for emergencies that arise in public speaking situations. (PD)

Twelve samples of teachers' contradictory expectations that create a no-win situation for supervisors. (Author/MLF)

The first phase of the Active Audience project in Great Britain has been designed to examine the nature of the television audience in terms of why people watch television and how they respond to what they are being offered, and presents life-style as the basis for defining audience groups. (Author/CMV)

Reviews empirical research on role variables in various professional groups and describes an empirical study that investigates the relationship between certain role and job satisfaction variables for a sample of 68 professional librarians. Thirty-three references are listed. (FM)

Independent expectancies were that alcohol enhances social and physical pleasure, enhances sexual performance and experience, increases power and aggression, increases social assertiveness, and reduces tension. More global factors were related to light consumption. Increased expectation of sexual and aggressive behavior was found in heavier…

Rotter's social learning theory is applied to the learned helplessness paradigm, and is used to analyze (1) expectancy change processes occurring during helplessness training and (2) the generalization of those changes to other situations. Literature on individual and situational differences is also reviewed. (Author/SS)

Elderly people show preservation, or even enhancement, of data-driven control but loss of memory-driven control of selective attention. As people grow older they become more labile and more subject to control by external events. Old subjects remember, analyse, and employ smaller samples of the recent past. (Author)

Offender status had a negative effect on dimensions involving acceptance of the client for therapy but little effect on assessment of personality variables. (Author)

The "high split" group scored significantly more apprehensive on both The Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and Templer's Death Anxiety Scale. This inter-group difference was attributable to the "high split" group's greater concern with the state of death, as opposed to the process of dying. (Author)

Describes a survey of accounting professional's expectations of the newly hired employee's communication skills. Concludes that there is general agreement that most accountants lack the skill to articulate conceptual ideas but there is little agreement on how to develop this skill in the classroom. (JMF)

One group of 113 college students took the Skills Confidence Inventory twice in three weeks; 218 took it once. Test-retest reliability and content validity were supported by the results. Confirmatory factor analyses suggested the inventory's fit with Holland's six-factor structure. (SK)

A survey of 1,299 blue- and white-collar workers in 10 Korean conglomerates was compared with surveys of Japanese and U.S. workers. A discrepancy emerged between Korean workers' expectations and perceptions of their situations. They were more satisfied with work but less proud of their jobs and companies than U.S. and Japanese workers. (SK)

Far too often, school boards and superintendent candidates are constrained by flaws in traditional search strategies. The best matches occur when school boards proactively recruit a targeted group of "best-fit" candidates, assure applicant confidentiality, ban inappropriate community and staff participation, outlaw candidate pools limited by…