Author evaluated the role that society has placed upon speed''. (RK)

Although the mediating variables were less clear than would be desired and were, by no means, exhaustively explored in this study, the evidence clearly supported the predicted relationship between intelligence and opinion change through active participation. (Author)

Report from the Anglo-American conference of sixty scientists at Wycombe, England. (RJ)

Study indicates that students suffering a disability in color perception would have greater difficulty in achieving success in biology than would students not so handicapped. (Author/CB)

Prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944-45 had no detectable effects on the adult mental performance of surviving male offspring; birth weight was not related to mental performance; and the association of social class with mental performance was strong. (AL)

Experiment set out to determine whether responses to creativity tests are influenced by the personality of the subjects and by the amount of stress imposed by different testing procedures. (Author)

Argues that, in spite of assertions by Jensen and Shockley to the effect that heredity is the major contributor to IQ differences, there exists no means for estimating the magnitude of the genetic contribution. (JF)

On the whole, the personality patterns of more intelligent and academically successful Iranian students would appear to be more like those of younger British pupils than their own age-mates. The study also offers evidence that Eysenck's newly developed psychoticism scale may be a better predictor of academic and intellectual performance.…

Reports on results of the Developmental Hand Function Test administered to 28 educable mentally retarded and 34 normal 12-and 14-year-old girls to show that manual dexterity and functional had skills are compromised in the mentally retarded. (DS)

Weekend activities involving college students and 6 to 9 year olds for a 10-week period effected positive changes in children's IQ, general adjustment, and need nurturance. (Author/SP)

Article is an attempt to clarify some of the issues involved in previous interpretations of data in longitudinal and cross-sectional studies. (MB)

Cognitive style was modified in a sample of 50 impulsive and 50 reflective fourth-grade boys. Subjects viewed a film-mediated model displaying a response style opposite to their own cognitive style. The specific cues in the model's behavior which facilitated shifts in cognitive style varied with the intellectual levels of the subject. (Author/WY)