Hypothesizing that prejudiced feelings about minorities are due not only to racial differences but to the fact that minorities often have lower socio-economic rank as well, this study examines data from a household survey in Tulsa, Oklahoma and documents the greater salience of socioeconomic cues and the lesser salience of racial cues for social…

Four experiments were carried out in which "subliminal psychodynamic activation" effects, used for studying the relationship between psychopathology and unconscious conflict, were sought out from male college students. Results were discussed for their bearing on subliminal research and research in personality. (Editor/RK)

Research on laterality and intellectual abilities suggests that left-handed persons may be divided into two categories: one not discriminably different from those who are right-handed, and one deficient in intellectual and cognitive abilities. 7688 children were tested on handedness, intellectual performance, and scholastic aptitude in order to…

The problems of two way analysis of variance designs with unequal and disproportionate cell sizes are discussed. A variety of solutions are discussed and a new solution is presented. (JKS)

This study was undertaken to extend the learned helplessness phenomenon to a clinical population and to test the competing hypotheses of Seligman and Lewinsohn. 96 male hospitalized psychiatric and medical patients were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. Results replicate the learned helplessness phenomenon in a group of…

Two weeks of twice-daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique was compared with 2 weeks of twice-daily practice of passive relaxation as a means of reduction of anxiety, as measured by the Trait scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. (Editor)

This research is an extension of earlier studies in which the experience of the body and the body image are conceptualized as an index of the way in which a person structures his relationships with others, how open or free he can be with others, or how disclosing he can be with others. (Author/RK)

American Indian students were divided into three treatment groups to test the hypothesis that: the students who receive instruction using visual communications method will do significantly better than the students who receive instruction in the same concepts orally or through reading a text. (JC)

A study of 1,423 respondents in northwest Wisconsin shows that age, education, and place of residence appear to account for the variation in environmental concern, with no significant remaining effect accounted for by any of the types of recreation considered by Dunlap and Heffernan in their 1975 study. (Author/JC)

After 15 years of research on group induced shifts in individual choice, two hypotheses, social comparison (involving image maintenance) and persuasive arguments (involving attitude change), have emerged as the leading explanatory contenders. This article criticizes the view held by Burnstein and his associates (EJ 128 727) which supports the…

Critically examines the foci of four prevalent explanations for reading failure in children: visual perception, intersensory integration, temporal-order perception, and verbal functioning. Applying findings from his own laboratory investigations and other selected research to each of the four hypotheses, author argues that the verbal-deficit…

Hypothesizing that when the motive to succeed (MS) is greater than the motive to avoid failure (MAF), the student teacher responds more positively and does better in the field experience than when MS is less than MAF, two samples of male and female student teachers were compared. (Author/JC)

In a course, Developing Creativity in Teaching, graduate students, many of them experienced teachers of varied subjects in junior and senior high school, practiced some methods which facilitate creative learning. (Author)

Fifteen FORTRAN 77 programs are contained in the described package. Three programs are available for each of five forgetting models involving 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10-parameter models. The programs compute parameter estimates and test parameter estimates both between and within experimental conditions. (Author/GDC)