The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory designed to sample symptomatology as subjective experiences from the 12 principal domains of organ system and psychophysiological functioning. This study investigates the factorial validity of the empirically constructed scales. (Author)

Outlines a simple and well known statistical procedure that is appropriate for identifying consistent differences on a series of subtests and presents several reasons why identifying these differences may have important consequences for evaluators. An investigation of sex differences on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities serves as an…

States that there is a need for a systematic attempt to break down the performance of black children (who have taken the WISC-R) into analytical and verbal-comprehension clusters. This need is based on the hypothesis that group blacks tend to show up as deficient in abstraction. Profile analysis could be useful in planning educational, vocational,…

Demonstrated that through a brief, didactic, demythologizing approach, college students' attitudes toward mental illness can be changed in a psychosocial or non-medical model direction. Results indicate that such an approach effectively can change students' somewhat negative constructs of mental patients in a positive direction. (Editor)

Focuses on key issues in this critique of humanistic psychology and examines eight areas of investigation in an attempt to develop humanistic psychology as a serious alternative to the empty scientism it was founded to counteract. (Author/RK)

Eight, ten, and twelve year old children were tested on a novel procedure involving the successive presentation of standard and comparision stimuli. Two hypotheses were evaluated: one dealing with memory effects, and the other with children's pretesting of choice responses in spatial information processing. (Editor/RK)

Jones (1976) has shown that the memory trace resulting from the viewing of a picture corresponds to a "fragment" of that picture. This research shows that the fragmentation hypothesis also correctly represents the recall of memories derived from sentences, i.e., the functional unit of memory, the mnemonic trace, is a fragment of the original item.…

The Dynamic Personality Inventory purports to measure the tendencies, sublimations, reaction-formations, and defence mechanisms associated with the various patterns of psychosexual development and contains 33 scales, constructed from factor analyses of inter-item correlations, of high reliability. This study attempts to determine its validity,…

Examines a number of aspects of job satisfaction among women in their thirties and forties over the 1967-1972 period using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys. (Editor)

The hypothesis that either familiarization or the association of items to context produces the crossover effect in whole-part learning was tested. The crossover effect refers to the eventual negative information transfer that occurs at the end of second-list learning. Results were interpreted in terms of a stage model of learning. (Editor/RK)

Investigates the feasibility of an alternative scoring procedure for the Semantic Differential (SD) that would permit easier analysis by psychotherapists so that the SD's use might increase as a measure of therapy process or outcome. (Author/RK)

Presentence evaluations conducted by psychologists and psychiatrists (clinicians) and correctional counselors (caseworkers) were subjected to multiple regression analyses in order to specify the relative contribution of inmate characteristics (offense severity and recidivism probability) and decision-maker response biases to sentencing…

A quantitative model is presented for understanding self-control and impulsiveness involving aversive events. Four experiments were conducted to test the model's adequacy in predicting how delay until punishment and duration of punishment affect choice. (Editor)

Examined whether modifying a message about a stimulus person to suit the listener has a lasting effect on the communicator's own recall and evaluation of this person. Potential consequences of following the rules for effective communication on communicators' later social judgments are discussed. (Editor/RK)

35 undergraduates segmented one of two videotapes of an actor methodically assembling 20 five-page questionnaires. Tests the hypothesis that behavior that differs systematically in the availability of action-defining changes will be segmented into perceived actions in a systematically different way. (Author/RK)