"Where the 'Stars' are: The 25 most cited psychologists in Canada": Corrections.

Reports an error in "Where the "stars" are: The 25 most cited psychologists in Canada (1972–1976)" by Norman S. Endler (Canadian Psychological Review, 1979[Jan], Vol 20[1], 12-21). Several corrections should be noted. The corrections are as follows: 1) in Table 1, the subheadings "1975 1974 1973 1972" were improperly aligned with the columns, and Kimura's 1976 citation rank should have been 3 instead of 2; 2) in Table 2, the number 1 calling attention to footnote 1 was omitted from the title; 3) in Table 3, an additional heading "Citations" should have appeared over the columns "1975 1974 1973 1972" on the same line as "Publications;" 4) in Table 3, the probability levels should have read '*p 1980-01842-001) and Endler et al's 1978 American Psychologist article (Vol. 33, pages 1064-1082). CPR also extends apologies to Professors Endler, Melzack and Tulving for typographical errors in the spelling of their names as follows: on the front cover, Professor Endler's middle initial should have been listed as S; on page 16, in the last paragraph, in the left hand column, Melzack's name was misspelled; on page 19, in the second paragraph in the right column, Tulving's name was misspelled. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1980-28686-001.) The Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for 1972-1976 was used as a data source for citation counts, which reflect scholarly impact, and publication counts reflecting productivity, for the 25 most cited psychologists ("stars") for 1972-1976. These 25 "stars" are located primarily at Ontario Universities and McGill and received their graduate training primarily at McGill, Yale, Harvard or the big 10 mid-western universities. Their major research areas appear to be cognitive processes, memory and verbal learning, personality theory and assessment, social processes and physiological psychology. Most of them are in their 40s or 50s, five of them are past presidents of CPA, three of them are currently departmental chairmen, and two are former departmental chairmen. Despite the limitations of the SSCI citation count, it appears to be the best single indicator of research quality and scholarly impact on the field of academic psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Expandable indexes vs. sequential menus for searching hierarchies on the World Wide Web

An experiment is reported that compared expandable indexes providing full menu context with sequential menus providing only partial context. Menu depth was varied using hierarchies of two, three and four levels deep in an asymmetric structure of 457 root level items. Menus were presented on the World Wide Web within a browser. Participants searched for specific targets. Results suggest that reducing the depth of hierarchies improves performance in terms of speed and search efficiency. Surprisingly, expandable indexes resulted in poorer performance with deeper hierarchies than did sequential menus.     

Use of rank order data in functional measurement.

8 paid Ss estimated average value of angle pairs using magnitude estimations or graphic ratings. These numerical response data followed a simple averaging model. Functional scaling yielded a linear relation between subjective and objective angle. The numerical data were then reduced to rank orders, and J. B. Kruskal's monotone analysis of variance (MONANOVA) procedure was applied. This allowed a reconstruction of the original metric information from the strictly ordinal information, illustrating the power of MONANOVA in scaling. Limitations of MONANOVA in testing the underlying model are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Moral judgment in delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents and their mothers.

Although considerable research effort has been devoted to the investigation of moral judgment in normal children, the relationship of the child's moral judgment to significant moral conduct as well as to parental antecedents has received scant empirical attention. In the current research, the level of moral judgment of 10 male 14-16 yr old delinquents and their mothers was compared to 10 nondelinquent males (matched on IQ and age) and their mothers, using L. Kohlberg's structured moral dilemmas. Mothers in both groups combined were higher in moral judgment than their sons. Nondelinquent adolescents used higher stages of moral judgment than delinquent adolescents. Similarly, mothers of nondelinquents manifested more mature moral judgment than did mothers of delinquents. Parental influences on the moral development of the child are discussed. (29 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Influence of in-plane displacements at the boundaries of rigid-plastic beams and plates

An approximate theoretical rigid-plastic study has been undertaken into the influence of small in-plane displacements at the boundaries of various laterally loaded beams. The most interesting feature of these theoretical predictions is the remarkably small in-plane displacements at the supports which can change the response from that of an axially restrained beam, with considerable reserve strengthening beyond the limit load for moderate lateral deflections, to that of a freely supported beam with no concomitant increase in strength beyond the limit load. A comparison has also been made between some theoretical predictions for a laterally loaded square plate and the corresponding experimental results obtained by Clarkson on rotationally fixed plates with edges free to slide inwards.     

Taylor-Russell tables for dichotomous criterion variables.

Considers that the widely used tables of H. Taylor and T. Russell (see pa, vol. 14:1111) for evaluating the usefulness of selection tests are inappropriate for evaluating predictors used to discriminate discrete normally distributed criterion groups where a point-biserial correlation coefficient is the proper index of validity. A set of tables is presented, similar to the taylor-russell tables, for evaluating the usefulness of selection tests where the assumptions require point-biserial validity coefficients. A graphic illustration of the rationale for developing the tables is provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Top-of-atmosphere flux retrievals from CERES using artificial neural networks

The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments on the Terra spacecraft provide accurate shortwave (SW), longwave (LW) and window (WN) region top-of-atmosphere (TOA) radiance measurements from which TOA radiative flux values are obtained by applying Angular Distribution Models (ADMs). These models are developed empirically as functions of the surface and cloud properties provided by coincident high-resolution imager measurements over CERES field-of-view. However, approximately 5.6% of the CERES/Terra footprints lack sufficient imager information for a reliable scene identification. To avoid any systematic biases in regional mean radiative fluxes, it is important to provide TOA fluxes for these footprints. For this purpose, we apply a feedforward error-backpropagation Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to reproduce CERES/Terra ADMs relying only on CERES measurements. All-sky ANN-based angular distribution models are developed for 10 surface types separately for shortwave, longwave and window TOA flux retrievals. To optimize the ANN performance, we use a partially connected first hidden neuron layer and compact training sets with reduced data noise. We demonstrate the performance of the ANN-based ADMs by comparing TOA fluxes inferred from ANN and CERES anisotropic factors. The global annual average bias in ANN-derived fluxes relative to CERES is less than 0.5% for all ANN scene types. The maximum bias occurs over sea ice and permanent snow surfaces. For all surface types, instantaneous ANN-derived TOA fluxes are self-consistent in viewing zenith angle to within 9% for shortwave, 3.5% and 3% longwave daytime and nighttime, respectively.     

Reliability coefficients from two administrations of the Willoughby Personality Schedule.

Determined internal consistency and test-retest reliability coefficients for the Willoughby Personality Schedule (WPS), currently used as an outcome measure in research and in clinical practice. The WPS was administered twice to 285 undergraduates from 2 universities with a 3-wk interval between testings. The Hoyt analysis of variance procedure yielded an internal consistency reliability coefficient of .90 on the 1st testing. The test-retest reliability coefficient was .89. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)