Eighty orphanage children, 6-10 years old, were matched with children in normal homes and tested for recognition of emotion in speech. Recognition scores were higher for (a) negative than positive emotions, (b) female than male voices, and (c) educated and uneducated speech, though these effects interacted with age. (Author/WY)

The findings suggest that objective tests of motivation add considerably to the prediction of achievement. (Author)

Fatuous "reasons and real reason are examined as they relate to curriculum and teaching. (Author)

The main effects and interactions of different methods of giving student IQ information to teachers (including the self-fulfilling prophesy hypothesis of Rosenthal's "Pygmalion in the Classroom"), sex of teacher, teacher opinion of IQ testing, and student socioeconomic level are investigated. (DG)

Outlines scientific history and the gradual understanding of the evolving universe; speculates on the "purpose" of the world and man's role in it. (AL)

Designed to reassess the relationship between response speed, errors, and IQ for both sexes, and to evaluate the findings in relation to the overall pattern of data accumulated from previous investigations. (Author/AJ)

Indicates why selective breeding for intelligence is biologically practical and suggests that positive eugenics is the only answer now available to our need for more intelligence. Procedure does not seem immoral. Quotes H. J. Muller's values to be recognized in eugenic planning." Does not prescribe program. (AL)

Suggests, as a practical measure, that beyond providing equal educational opportunity, intellectually gifted children ought to be sought out and treated as seriously as tennis stars are. The relationship of genetics to achievement is discussed. (DM)