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What kept impressing me is the way in which the viii interpretation of the "findings" about motives, feelings, and emotion reflect unargued conceptions of human nature, or that the views of fundamental motives, feelings, and emotions unduly dominate the underlying conception of the person.

Metatheory refers to theory, drawing on the philo sophy of science and having implications for methodology, about psycho logical theories. By theory we refer to both analyses of the foundations of extant theory, including historical and sociological ana lyses, and the advancement of substantive theory.

Students in sociology, psychology, political science, economics, American studies, family studies, aging, social work, and health fields will find it an exceptional source of information. For researchers, the book provides a simplified reference to the GSS and data for statistical treatment in analytical studies.

Skill Acquisition Rates and Patterns reviews and synthesizes the data and findings from the literature on skill acquisition, learning, retention, and transfer. The author stresses the applicability of available information to the estimation of an appropriate time course for training and to related areas of potential training improvements.

The contributors provide an introduction to information processing theories for survey researchers, review current knowledge of response effects in the light of recent theorizing in cognitive psychology, and report a number of experimental studies on question context and question wording.

I have attended quite a few conferences and meetings devoted to the ideas of Kurt Lewin. I think he would have been stimulated by and enthusiastic about the many diverse areas to which Lewinian analy ses, ideas, and concepts are applied today, as illustrated by this volume.

Language and Learning in the Cooperative Classroom reports the results of an experiment on the effects of cooperative learning. Do pupils who study with the Group-Investigation method display more extensive verbal interaction with their peers than pupils who study with the Whole-Class method?

Arriving upon the scene in psychology when he did, one of Nevitt Sanford's first publications, KhY~i~~~, K~~~GBPGBP~li!r, ~GBPGBP ~GBP~GBPl~~~~iE (1943), reflected the interest of that time in biology and physiology (a concern of psychology which declined for some time thereafter, to be revived in the 1960's).

Our interest lies in the kinds of knowledge domains and skills that military personnel must master to function effectively on their jobs. In the case of reservists who may be called back to active duty, the period of nonuse of relevant military job skills may be counted in terms of years.

Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psycho metrics and Methodology presents the most esteemed research findings of the 22nd European Mathematical Psychology Group meeting in Vienna, Austria, September 1991.

I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. The focus of Volume One was on happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole, so-called global indicators of subjective well being.

One of the liveliest areas of research in the social sciences is reading. What are the best ways to approach instruction for different groups of readers-young beginning readers, poor readers with learning problems, and teenage and adult illiterates?

I suppose that most of the people reading this volume will have read or have access to Volume One of my Global Report on Student Well Being. As I indicated at the be ginning of that volume, the data-set is available for a very modest cost to anyone who wants it and I do hope others will take advantage of it.

It is the first book of its kind devoted entirely to the question of behavioral asymmetries in all primates and thus presents a milestone as it recognizes the accumulating evidence of asymmetry and lateralized behavior in the non-human nervous system.

The project aims to explain global satisfaction and happiness as well as satisfaction in 12 domains: health, finances, family relations, paid employment, friendships, housing, living partner, recreation activity, religion, self-esteem, transportation and education.

0 Psychology versus Complex Systems Science Over the last century, psychology has become much less of an art and much more of a science. After all, one might argue, a scientific psychology cannot be expected to deal with fuzzy philosophical questions that probably have little empirical signifi cance.

Whereas studies of violence have ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of study among social scientists.