Prior research has indicated that rumination contributes to the maintenance or intensification of depressive symptoms among adults. This study examined associations between rumination and depressive symptoms in early adolescence. Using a short-term longitudinal design, we evaluated relations between subtypes of rumination and both depressive…

Four experiments are reported which employ a recall-reaction time paradigm. The experiments are designed to establish the baseline effects in the paradigm, determine which of these effects should be attributed to the retrieval stage of processing and investigate the effect of semantic memory in this task. (Author/DEP)

Examines relationship between results on Attitudes toward Women Scale and free response listing of thoughts in measuring 79 male, 81 female college students' attitudes about women's roles and issues. Both sexes responded more traditionally to Equal Rights Amendment and working mothers and less traditionally to shared household tasks, suggesting…

A study of the commonality of associations of 50 lexical and 50 structural words by 80 kindergarten children indicated that (1) there was no significant difference in commonality of responses between lexical and structural words, (2) there was a difference in commonality relations for the sexes, and (3) there was more commonality in responses to…

Items constructed like those of Mednick's Remote Associates Test (RAT) fall into distinct categories, which are shown to interact significantly with subjects and with subject groups determined on the basis of performance. Some doubts are cast on the validity of the RAT. A similar 16-item test is included. (Author/JKS)

The present paper aims at a cross-validation of two theoretical constructs (the construct of cognitive preferences and the logical/associative model of a concept) that have been used as nonroutine measures of student assessment and curriculum evaluation. (BW)

Following a study designed to obtain current word association norms, two experiments were performed to test the effects of false recognition of using individual associative hierarchies. (Author)

Results of three experiments affirm prior research concerned with the distinction between associative and encoding factors in free recall. (Author/MB)

Twenty-two second grade students in Cambridge (Massachusetts) were asked to rate pictures of nature items and artifacts on a seven-point scale ranging from "maleness" to "femaleness." Responses overall showed a female-nature and male-artifact association. Discusses the role of such associations in the development of gender…

The sampling distributions of five popular measures of association with and without two bias adjusting methods were examined for the single factor fixed-effects multivariate analysis of variance model. The number of groups, sample sizes, number of outcomes, and the strength of association were manipulated. The results indicate that all five…

Included in an interview with 50 experts who have a special interest in peace education and represent 22 countries, this report documents and discusses answers to the question: "What do you think of first when you hear the words 'peace education'?" Part 1 of the report presents a summary of some of the major aspects of the answers…

Results of a study to determine whether paired-comparisons i intransitivity is a function of intransitivity associated with specific stimulus objects rather than a function of the entire set of stimulus objects suggested that paired-comparisons intransitivity relates to individual differences variables associated with the respondent. (Author/CTM)