Preparation of this paper aided by Grant MH-11521 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

Ten thematic articles explore the spiritual implications for the creation of a world of greater justice and peace. Examples of topics discussed in the articles follow. Some rather startling implications of recent findings in psychological and psychic research which suggest that we are at the threshold of new and deeper public understanding of the…

In August 1979, Amedeo Giorgi presented a workshop on "Phenomenological Theory and Method" at the University of Goteborg (Sweden). This report describes that workshop. First, the major concepts of phenomenology are introduced (Intentionality, Description, Reduction, and Essence), followed by a brief description of Husserl's philosophical…

AN OVERVIEW OF A SERIES OF STUDIES ON BYSTANDER INTERVENTION IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IS PRESENTED. IN THE FIRST EXPERIMENT, TWO, THREE, AND SIX MEMBER GROUPS REACTED TO HEARING, BUT NOT SEEING, ONE MEMBER OF THE GROUP HAVING AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE. AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OBSERVERS PERCEIVED TO BE PRESENT DECREASED THE SPEED OF RESPONSE. WHEN…

Over 300 scholarly papers are presented here. The papers are divided into 40 sections covering such topics as memory, sensory development, learning, conditioning, behavior theory, attitude development, clinical assessment, perception, and psychophysiology. Although the papers are in the main aimed at other professionals in psychology, many of them…

An attempt to build a mathematical model of a device that could learn geometry is discussed. The report discusses the background and motivation of the study, the coding problem, the derivation of Suppes "Stimulus-Response Theory of Finite Automata" used in the work in learning theory, and a summary of the technical work. (DB)

Sixty males received either one, 5, or 9 electric shocks of varying magnitude from a confederate during a 10-trial probability estimation task. Following initial trials, subject and confederate reversed roles, and subjects were permitted equal opportunity to counter-aggress against the confederate. One-half the subjects had been forewarned of role…

Two experiments made in a study of the feasibility of keeping children away from harmful household goods through the use of odorous chemical substances which elicit inherent aversive reactions in children are discussed. The subjects, procedure, and results of each experiment are given. The overall results of the study show that, in general, the…

The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate systematically the unparalleled richness, individuation, and utility of the clinical case study method in clinical psychology and personality research, which affords the clinician-personologist a most useful methodological tool, a more humane process, and a substantively more meaningful…

A group of 80 black, urban ghetto mothers, 40 with a behaviorally disturbed child and 40 with no identified disturbed child, was evaluated by the MMPI. (Author)

This study investigated: (1) whether men and women within the same diagnostic category are assigned different types or amounts of treatment; and (2) whether any such differences relate to actual variations in the subjectively reported symptoms, mood states, or interpersonal concerns reported by the patients. (Author)

Author found deficiencies in Hardt and Kamiya's article (AA 522 799) and he briefly reviewed the relevant research and the nature of the "alpha phenomena" making it clear which conclusions are warranted by the available data and what needs to be done to resolve the remaining issues. (Author/RK)

An important issue in encoding theories of memory is the stability of encodings from one stimulus presentation to the next. Article investigate the use of homonyms as an approach to observing the changes in word associations. (Author/RK)

The principal aim of this research was to test the levels of processing approach to memory by directly varying the depth to which the input could be processed, as opposed to the earlier incidental learning tests of levels of processing, where the input was held constant across processing conditions. (Author)