This study proposes a social-psychological hypothesis of test faking which postulates that faking involves the enacting of a social role appropriate to the given testing situation. Subtle manipulations of the test-taking environment, designed to induce subjects to adopt given social roles, produced substantial role-specific changes in test scores.…

Presented are proceedings of a conference designed to provide a statewide forum for the exploration of the issues of child abuse and neglect, to maximize interdisciplinary communication as well as communication between the professional and lay communities of Indiana concerned with child protection, and to develop strategies for future coordinated…

The author notes that many in the schools, and in society at large, reach conclusions based on faulty perceptions of situations and roles. Some important suggestions are offered. (Editor)

The author discusses the professional responsibilities and professional behavior of speech and hearing clinicians. (LS)

The relationship between the degree to which people see others as like themselves (assimilative projection) and the frequency with which they use positive adjectives to describe people was examined in the context of changing role perspectives. (Editor)

Based upon author's Ph.D. Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.

The changing role of the school psychologist in light of societal changes, changes in the profession, and the needs of handicapped children is discussed. Such professional dilemmas as the conflict between requirements for mundane assessment tasks and meaningful psychological practice are considered. Relationships of the school psychologist with…

The monograph includes three papers on the provision of school psychological services in secondary schools. "Perspectives in Psychological Services at the Secondary School Level" (by K. Hinkle and S. Sommers) provides a state of the art review of past, present, and future trends. D. McEchron's paper "School Psychological Services in the Secondary…

Psychologists and linguists often suggest that empathy or role-taking ability is important in the communication process because it enables a speaker to consider in advance the informational demands of his audience. Despite the vintage of the empathy-effective communication hypothesis, it has never been directly tested. In this study, empathy was…

In Fall 1967, Educational Testing Service joined with Morton Rauh, Vice President for Finance at Antioch College, to carry out a large scale survey of members of college and university governing boards. A questionnaire was mailed to trustees of over 500 institutions. From the responses of more than 5,000 board members, extensive data concerning…

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of vocational directors and high school principals regarding the role of the vocational director, to determine if programs need to be developed to provide for optimum relationships between the director and the principal. Mailed questionnaire responses were received from 121 pairs of…

Interaction in the teaching team, team status structure, and teachers' perceptions of the team's decision-making authority were investigated as important dimensions of the team-teaching organization. Relationships between these dimensions and the teacher's sense of his own influence and autonomy are described. Each of 17 teams in six team-teaching…

The aims of this study are 1) to survey and summarize reports on predictions of teacher role changes, 2) to check the predictions against available empirical investigations, and 3) to discuss consequences of teacher role changes for teacher training, research on teaching, and the refinement of innovations. Some rationales for role prediction…