Focuses on the relationship between conceptual tempo and control of humorous affect in young children. Records the responses of reflective, fast-accurate, impulsive, and slow-accurate fourth-grade children to a videotape of an adult telling a series of jokes, half of which are followed by audience laughter. (CM)

Two experiments examined the effects of blocking of word lists (grouped by semantic category membership or randomly ordered) on the dichotic listening performance of second-and fifth-grade children. (CM)

The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)

Three strategies of attention were investigated in two dichotic monitoring experiments. Subjects were divided into three groups, 7, 11 and 20 years of age. (CM)

Investigates the psychometric properties of the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale (PPNS-IE). The test was administered to first, second and third graders. (CM)

The test developer's reply to Herzberger et al.'s allegation that the internal consistency of the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale is not sufficiently high to justify the scale's use. (CM)

Studies the relationship between egocentrism, empathy, and altruistic behavior in three- to nine-year-old children. (CM)

A descriptive study of the reasons given for highest and lowest ratings in life satisfaction for childhood/adolescence, the first, and the second decade after high school. (CM)

Androgyny across the life span was studied by comparing 13- to 85-year-old subjects' scores on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI). (CM)

Challenges studies supporting Kohlberg's claim of invariance in the development of moral judgment which maintain that subjects' preferred responses to moral dilemmas are based on higher stages of thinking. Findings indicate language rather than levels of thinking is a significant factor in subjects' response preferences. (CM)

Two studies examined the relation between identifying toys as "boys" or "girls" and sex-appropriate toy preferences. Subjects were two- to six-year-old children. (CM)

Studies the relationship between children's developmental profiles and longitudinal measurements of test anxiety. Subjects are 89 10- to 12-year-old children. (CM)