Personality differences betweeen adolescent males who engage in illegal behaviors with accomplices and those who engage in illegal behaviors alone are examined. Contrary to the findings of earlier researchers, in the present study, no personality differences between the two groups were found. (Author)

The work reported in this study attempts to further isolate the place of two codes of information, visual and acoustic. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the GSR during systematic desensitization. Three groups of females each were preselected for high snake fear. Outcome measures indicated that the desensitization group reduced phobic behavior most, followed by the relaxation group, and then the exposure groups. (Author)

This study presents reliability and validity evidence concerning a new measure of a generalized locus of control for children. Construction procedures leading to the final 40-item scale are described. (Author)

Neutral outcomes tended to produce situational attribution, success produced self-attribution, and failure produced partner attribution under cooperation but situational attribution under competition; results discussed from standpoint of two theories of responsibility attribution. (Author)

After being measured for test anxiety, three groups of participants observed an experimenter, who served as a model, solve sample problems prior to performing themselves. Opportunity to observe a model who verbalized while working on problems and who stated general principles had a positive effect on performance. (Author/KM)

One hundred and two subjects were given three verbal concept acquisition tasks. Repression, High defensiveness, and low psychoastenia were found to be significantly associated with high acquisition scores. (Author/KM)

It was predicted that high-scoring students would be better able to answer correctly questions directed at knowledge of principles and that this superior knowledge would result in better performance on questions on trivial materials as well. (Author/KM)

Presented are 211 abstracts of articles from journals and books on the subjects of Biology, including Infancy; Developmental and Comparative Psychology; Experimental Psychology including Learning Phenomena; Sociology and Social Psychology; Education, Educational Psychology, and Counseling; and Psyciatry, Clinical Psychology, and other Clinical…

Reprint requests should be directed to the author, Department of Psychology, LSUNO-Lakefront, New Orleans, Louisiana 70122. An ALDOUS user's manual is available. (Author/CB)

The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 103 children from seven kibbutzim under frequent shelling and 90 children from seven kibbutzim that were never under fire. Contrary to the hypotheses that the children from the bombarded kibbutzim would have a higher level of anxiety than those from the nonbombarded ones, no significant…

Research is contradictory concerning ability of the Wechsler Object Assembly (OA) subtest to predict bodily preoccupations. This study presents data from an objective personality test that do not support the hypothesis that bodily concerns are indicated by impaired performance on the WAIS OA subtest. (Author)

In this study, BIP records previously reported by Kenny (1971) were reused to determine the accuracy of identification of children with cerebral dysfunction and to update the results of using the revised BIP scoring system. (Author)

This article describes possible influences of mental set on what you say or wish to say. Examples of various types of influences are presented. (DF)