Five cases of adverse reactions to marihuana seen in a student health service are described, in which the students' initial complaints substantially cleared with the cessation of marihuana use. (MB)

Teaching procedures designed to improve children's divergent thinking abilities were administered to two classes of 9- and 10-year-old children, one formal and one informal. Results suggest that appropriate teaching procedures can play a significant part in enhancing children's divergent thinking abilities, particularly verbal abilities.…

A previous finding that adults recalled more words if the words were drawn from one semantic category than if they were drawn from more than one was confirmed for children down to age five. (Editor)

Examines the effect of sex of subject and acquaintance on the behavior of 24 pairs of same-sex subjects at a particular transition point, the closure of a meeting. Results are discussed in relation to social skills and to differential expectations of future interaction. (Editor/RK)

An investigator's method of selecting schizophrenic and control subjects for comparison can assure either a difference or a lack of difference between groups on almost any kind of task that requires a voluntary response. Discusses how researchers should select subjects and the inferences that may reasonably be drawn from studies of schizophrenic…

A previous study found that 5-year-old children of schizophrenic mothers were impaired on visual attention tasks as compared with controls. No difference was observed in 6-year-olds, however. This study reexamined the attentive behavior of some of these children 3 years later. (Editor)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the sexual attitudes and behavioral patterns of black adult mental retardates. Subjects consisted of three different grouping: educable mentally retarded, trainable mentally retarded, and a normal sample. Group counseling, individual counseling, and attitudinal questionnaires were used to accumulate the…

Focuses on the traditional field of psychology, on human experience and human behavior, and the ways in which the study of the effects of brain injury may throw light upon their nature. (Author/RK)

Attempts to derive more specific clinical information contributed by the experimental scales, (the Pd and Ma, used for compiling profiles of abusive females and abusive males, and the OH, used for evaluating hostility), which would contribute greater psychological understanding of maltreating parents. (Author/RK)

Examines the profiles of Canadian prisoners of war who were interned in Japanese and German camps during World War II in order to determine whether the MMPI yielded a profile characteristic of internees. (Author)

Attempts to predict which male Ss (high or low authoritarian personality) would reflect higher self-actualization scores when exposed to a 16-hour marathon group conducted by female leaders. (Author/RK)

Attempts a more direct, functional analysis of associative processing than is possible within the traditional two-stage transfer paradigm. (Author/RK)

Evaluates a training program to determine if it improved interpersonal skills of managers, how long the effects of the training could be expected to last, and if employees of the trained managers could perceive changes in their managers' overall behavior. (Author/RK)

Looks at current attempts to bridge the brain/mind gap. (Editor)