After incidental exposure to Blacks who succeeded in counterstereotypical domains (e.g., Brown University President Ruth Simmons, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison), participants drew an automatic inference that race was not a success-inhibiting factor in modern society. Of note, participants' automatic inferences were not simply guided by their explicit reasoning (i.e., their beliefs about what the...

Writing can be defined in a variety of ways. In this examination of learning to write, we view writing as a complex cognitive process and examine instruction that is designed to enable writers to communicate their ideas effectively and perform well in academic settings, on standardized assessments such as the Nation’s Report Card (Salahu-Din, Persky, & Miller, 2008), and in the modern workplace...

‘Just choose the easy option’: students talk about alcohol use and social influence Julie Hepworth, Chris McVittie, Toni Schofield, Jo Lindsay, Rose Leontini & John Germov To cite this article: Julie Hepworth, Chris McVittie, Toni Schofield, Jo Lindsay, Rose Leontini & John Germov (2015): ‘Just choose the easy option’: students talk about alcohol use and social influence, Journal of Youth Studi...

This research note presents the results of a content analysis of the Columbia Mental Maturity Scale and the Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI). We also compared the intratest performance of a selected sample of language-impaired (LI) and MA-matched normal language children on these two tests. These analyses are an extension of Johnston's (1982) report on the Leiter. The content analysis reve...