Reexamines data from a study by Bayley and Schaefer and argues that no significant sex difference was demonstrated in their study. Points out that the male and female samples differed significantly with respect to both level of mother's education and children's IQ variance. (Author/JMB)

Investigated the concurrent validity of the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR), an instrument which measures locus of control in academic achievement situations. Teachers from nine elementary schools rated students in grades 3-6 as internal or external in academic achievement situations. These ratings were then compared with the…

Seventy-four second and third graders were tested for their understanding of proportions and asked to allocate rewards varying in sufficiency for three pairs of children working in either team or nonteam conditions. (Author/JMB)

Self-reports about 70 masculine and feminine behaviors were collected from 177 undergraduates and their families and were correlated within family pairs to assess family resemblances in masculine or feminine preferences. The obtained family correlations were compared with those predicted by three theoretical models of gender-identity acquisition.…

A previous study of undergraduates' sibling deidentification (global judgments of being different from one's sibling) was cross-validated on a new population, mothers judging pairs of their own children; at a new age level, varying in age from 1 month to 18 years; and using same-opposite as well as alike-different judgments. (Author/JMB)

Two lines of research on the development of Piagetian concepts are examined in terms of the effects of their methodological procedures on the substantive results of the research. (JMB)

A sample of 40 babies was observed in a variety of mildly challenging situations throughout their second year and in a series of follow-up assessments at age 31/2. Findings revealed two types of avoidant mechanism--wariness of the unfamiliar and fearfulness after exposure to a mildly difficult situation. (JMB)

Discusses the conflict between situational influences and stable individual differences in attachment behavior and attempts to resolve this conflict by examining the functions, outcomes, and context sensitivity of attachment behavior and the underlying behavioral control systems that organize it. (JMB)

Reviews Bell and Ainsworth's 1972 study and suggests that their main conclusion, that maternal responding implied a reduction in infant crying, was not supported by their data. (JMB)

Cites evidence from the Bell-Ainsworth paper and from other studies which supports the interpretation that Gewirtz and Boyd claims was unjustified. (JMB)