The author presents a summary of selected theoretical concepts and empirical evidence from the field of psychology, relating to the meaning of the term "meaning." He first summarizes experimental techniques for the investigation of meaning in terms of six approaches: conditioning methods, word association methods, word association/verbal learning…

The author investigates social stereotypes in terms of status of occupations, rather than masculine dominance, and explores more fully the relationship between the need for achievement, sex, and occupational interests. (Author/RK)

The study investigated the relationship between the attitudes of 100 primary and special educators and the amount of contact with such children, knowledge about them, and the demographic variables (sex, age, and teaching experience). (Author/SBH)

The role of attitude in the extensive underperformance reported among West Indian children in British schools is of critical importance. This includes attitudes of the host community towards West Indians and vice versa. Suggests that there are strong links between attitudes towards a language and attitudes towards speakers of that language.…

Two instruments are presented: a modified Bogardus Social Distance Scale measures the behavioral aspect; factor I of a semantic differential test measures the affective aspect; factors II and III measure the cognitive. Development of the instruments is described, and suggestions are given for administering and scoring. (Author/KM)

Describes study that investigated the communicability of the emotional connotation of various typefaces. Typographers, student instructional technologists, and naive readers (high school and college students) rated 30 typefaces using a semantic differential scale. Seven hypotheses tested are discussed and results are analyzed. (Author/LRW)

Only at the third- and seventh-grade levels did proportional preferences for Fibonacci figures differ significantly from preferences for other kinds of proportional spatial divisions. Semantic patterns were similar among third and fifth graders, with a change occurring between fifth and seventh grades in keeping with the development of formal…

The point of this paper is that the who he is,'' or the adolescent's sense of identity, is disturbed because the what he does'' is not culturally valued. (Author/CB)

The findings demonstrate: (1) an evaluative or attitude factor underlies the Semantic Differential scales used when a person rates both his own orientation toward an issue and the perceived orientation of another; and (2) that factor scores accurately discriminate between persons holding and perceiving favorable and unfavorable attitudes.…

Studied the existence of body build stereotypes, extent of identification with this stereotype, and the effect of this identification on children's self-evaluation. Found fat and skinny child stereotypes invariant across age and sex groups. The majority of children identified with the average child in all settings. (PAS)

Reports on a study which sought to determine the effect of family tactile history on attitude toward touch in public, and the relationship between this tactile history and the frequency of public touching behavior. (Author/AM)

Discusses the effects of marathon group therapy on attitudes of former drug users in a residential drug treatment center. Experimental group members responded higher on the group counseling evaluative subscale and lower on the guilt evaluative subscale than control members. (Author)

Examines the semantic relationships in consumers' health-related questions, physician-provided answers, and between questions and answers with the purpose of supporting the design of health consumer question-answering systems. The information present in the text was expressed using a "pilot" ontology that was based on the semantic…

Conducted national survey of administrators, graduate faculty members, and graduate students (total N=320) to examine names used to describe field: student personnel, student affairs, student services, and student development. Results revealed significant and differential preferences: student development was term preferred overall, with student…