ion: Nature, Costs, and Benefits Graeme S. Halford University of Queensland, 4072, Australia William H. Wilson University of New South Wales Steven Phillips Electrotechnical Laboratory Tsukuba Science City, Japan Running head: Relational processing This work was supported by grants from the Australian Research Council. Author’s address: Graeme Halford, Department of Psychology, University of Qu...

Ms. Sharwline Nicholson probably did not realize that what she experienced on January 7, 1999 would change her life, the lives of her two children, and ultimately, the lives of many other battered mothers and children in New York. A thirty-two-year-old mother of two, Ms. Nicholson worked as a full-time cashier and attended classes full-time at Mercy College. Mr. Barnett, the father of Ms. Nicho...