Results of the present study show that children by the age of 7 have internalized systematic if not complex rules concerning the conditions under which they may engage in self-gratification. (Author)

Major finding of the study was that white children judged that ability and effort were relatively more important for their performance than task difficulty and luck, while the reverse was true for blacks. (Authors)

Black children of both SES levels behave like lower-SES white children showing a relatively high level of self gratification. (Authors)

Parents discouraged cross-sexed interests in boys more than in girls. Parents of the same sex as their child reported more encouragement of sex typing than did opposite-sexed parents. (Authors)

Study assesses the relative strength and quality, that is, the richness" of the attributions of individual subjects. (Author/MB)

Younger men are both less engaged from the world and more efficient processors of information than older (especially less educated) ones. (Authors)

Results indicated that subjects in each source of blame group responded with significantly less amplitude and speed following interruption than noninterruption. (Authors)

Whereas middle-aged individuals tended to group the entire stimulus array into piles of similar items, the elderly individuals grouped very much as young children do--arranging only a portion of the stimulus array into elaborate designs. (Authors)

Trend exhibited by the subjects of the present study was for men to show an earlier and more rapid decline than women, possibly as a reflection of their shorter life span. (Authors)

Results were taken to confirm the importance of environmental factors in language acquisition. (Authors)

Personal time perspective was defined as self-assessment at present in comparison with 5 years backward (retrotension) and forward (protension). (Authors)

Author challenges the findings of Helene Borke who presented evidence interpreted as demonstrating that children as young as 3 years of age were able to successfully abandon their own egocentric perspectives and adopt the points of view of others. Rejoinder by Borke is presented in PS 502 130. (MB)

Rejoinder to article PS 502 129. (MB)

Using one protocol (Role of Invisible Magnetism) and the Inhelder-Piaget method of analysis, the present investigators attempted to duplicate the results of Inhelder and Piaget. They found examples and evidence for only 8 of the 16 binary operations, and discovered 8 of the Inhelder-Piaget analyses were faulty. (Authors/MB)

Data suggest that young children can rapidly learn to classify transformations correctly that do and do not affect liquid quantity. (Authors)