On the basis of informal content analysis of the deliberations and materials of two international conferences the author identifies (a) the capacity to resolve theory-practice tension, and (b) the flexibility of the conceptual system needed to subsume changes at both individual and social...

The interactive relationship between the development of psychology as a discipline, and social change is brought out by an analysis of the social and historical landmark events in Latin America. The relevance of some concepts of mainstream psychology is discussed and the need for defining the...

The paper analyses the macro level data collected by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research along with census data in 1981 on the employment status of scientists in four fields of specialisation, namely, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Sciences and Medicine, with...

The psychocultural position of Third World women employed in the assembly plants of multinational enterprises is examined on the basis of well-documented accounts of their working conditions. In particular, it is argued that the impact of working conditions on stress related psychological...

Male students in a university in South India were placed in dyads in which both members were either Upper Caste or Scheduled Caste, or one was Upper Caste and the other was Scheduled Caste. In each of the 27 dyads, the students carried on two unstructured conversations, 10 minutes in English and...

The study examines the differences in cooperative-competitive behaviour and styles of con flict resolution among Mizo children varying along the dimensions of school and grade. A group of 90 subjects, two at a time, participated in a modified version of the Prisoners Dilemma game. They were also...

The present study examines the recall performance of school and non-school-going children in a natural setting using, as the task, a card game called 'call' quite popular in rural Orissa. Eighteen school and 18 non-school-going children of grade six from a rural area participated in this card...

This paper describes the construction and validation of a bank of environmental supports for vocabulary and verbal reasoning tests in English in Zimbabwe. The bank exploits advances in corpus linguistics to provide systematic information on word usage in Zimba bwean school textbooks....