Relates political candidates' television advertising to voters' emotional reactions and voting behavior. Suggests that television campaign advertising elicits emotion along three continua: pleasure-displeasure, arousal-nonarousal, and dominance-submissiveness. Suggests that emotional response to such advertising is systematically related to voting…

Full-term and preterm infants who had participated in studies of cross-modal and intramodal transfer at 12 months of age were seen at older ages to assess the predictive validity of these early measures for later cognition. (Author)

When a form of high technology becomes obsolete, many people acquire a fear and distrust of the future--a neurosis called the ruins complex. But humanity can respond positively to the ghosts of dead technology and invent a hopeful future. (Author/RM)

Two experiments investigated learning disabled children's ability to predict and evaluate their own decoding performance. Results tentatively suggested that when words were individualized in this manner, LD children were as competent as non-LD children in predicting and evaluating their own performance. (Author/CL)

The role that speculative literature can play in futures studies is examined. For example, speculative fiction makes the future accessible to a wide audience. The best futurist work springs not from a denial of historicity, but from a reflexive appreciation of it, and reveals often overlooked aspects of reality. (RM)

The literature of future studies has grown up rapidly in times of technological innovation and social change. Particular events and publications that have contributed most to the development of the futures movement around the world are highlighted. (Author/RM)

Describes two experiments that looked at: (1) how accurately, in a multiple-trial learning situation, individuals are able to predict their own performance on a trial-by-trial basis over the entire course of acquisition; and (2) what information a person uses to predict his or her own acquisition performance. (SED)

Gifted adolescents (N=175) reported degree of loneliness to be a function of anger, depression, and stressful life changes. Furthermore, the most salient aspects of depression for predicting loneliness were helplessness, social introversion, and low self-esteem. The relationship between loneliness and depression suggests further evidence of a…

When the six scales were cross-validated on an independent sample from the population of child-abusing parents, significant shrinkage in the accuracy of prediction was found. The use of the special subscales for identifying "at risk" parents in prenatal clinics, pediatric clinics, and mental health centers as originally suggested by…

Investigated the ability of the Child Abuse Potential Inventory to screen for child abuse in a group of spouse abusers. The completed, valid protocols revealed that 36.5 percent of the spouse abusers had elevated child abuse scores, while only 9.1 percent of the nonabusers had elevated abuse scores. (Author/BL)

A retrospective follow-up investigated 70 behaviorally disordered youths and identified factors associated with successful completion of comprehensive residential and day treatment programs. Results suggest that attendance, day or residential status, and prior adjudication were related to treatment outcomes. For a subset of 34 Ss, measures of…

Three methods of student enrollment forecasting and the reports of tests of their reliability are described. In forecasting enrollment, school officials should use a variety of methods. (MD)

Thirty-four kindergarten children from an all Black inner city school were administered reading related language measures and the McCarthy Scales of children's abilities. Findings emphasized that screening instruments should include language tests more directly related to early reading acquisition, specifically language analysis skills, rapid…

The creator of Star Trek uses two fictional characters to explain a few offbeat--but effective--ways of thinking about the future. Those capable of using an extraterrestrial's eyes as an exercise, as a challenge, as an exciting game, improve on their ability to estimate where today may be taking us. (Author)

Presented 30 photographs of people posing in different emotions to 15 college students, who predicted how often they would see or perform each expression. Results showed happiness was rated the best, strongest, and most probable expression. Neutral expressions were found to vary in similar ways with other affective expressions. (JAC)