The "Call for Programs" for the 1990 APA annual convention will be included in the October issue of the APA Monitor. The 1990 convention will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from August 10 through August 14. Deadline for submission of program and presentation proposals is December 15, 1989. This earlier deadline is required because many university and college campuses will close for the holidays in mid-December and because the convention is in mid-August.

The authors examine several problems posed for emperical and theoretical research by the achievement of hegemony by one culture or system of thought over others. The issue is addressed from the special perspective of social scientists of African American descent who practice in a European /American dominant society. Several highly respected tenets of science, such as objectivity, positivism, and logical consistency, are questioned as to their universal utility when the life experiences, mores, and values of subjects studied are quite diverse. We suggest adapting the design and management of the conduct of inquiry to better accommodate cultural, class, ethnic, and gender diversity under conditions of subpopulation variance and cultural hegemony

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of such psychosocial factors as computer experience, computer usage, future plans regarding computers, and various types of anxiety on children's attitudes toward computers. Subjects consisted of 120 males and 159 females in grades six ( N = 120) and seven ( N = 159), who were enrolled in two single-sex, private, residential schools in Dehru Dun, India. The Bath County Computer Attitudes Survey was used to measure attitudes toward computers. The Spielberger Trait-Anxiety Scale and the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Anxiety Scale were used to measure subjects' trait anxiety and mathematics anxiety levels, respectively. Results indicated that computer experience, usage, future plans, trait anxiety, and mathematics anxiety were significant factors in predicting computer attitudes. The results were consistent with similar research on North American children. Educational implications of these findings are discussed.

People's attitudes toward self and others are a product of the type of interactions experienced in their social environment. Consistent with this reasoning, the object of this study was to ascertain the relative influence of stressful life events and social environmental variables, especially network structure support, on the self-esteem and trust level of Black females. One hundred and fifty-nine Black college females volunteered to complete six questionnaires concerning their attitudes, personality, and background. A significant canonical correlation was found for education level of parents/grandparents, mother's status (the predictor variables) and feelings toward racial discrimination, self-esteem, and trust (the criterion variables). The results of the stepwise multiple regression analyses supported the canonical findings. It was concluded that future research on social and personality development should take into account the background of the subjects from a network structure perspective, and must examine factors relevant to psychosocial development for both their predictive and mediating qualities.